The five emirates created in Kano State by the former administration of governor Abdullahi Ganduje has been dissolved.
This followed the passing into law, Kano State Emirate Council Law second amendment bill by the State House of Assembly.
The act was sequel to deliberations on the floor of the House during plenary presided over by the Speaker, Hon. Ismail Falgore on Thursday’s sitting.
The Kano State Emirate Council Amendment Bill was passed on the floor of the House after scaling second and third reading.
Earlier the deputy speaker, Alhaji Muhammad Bello Butu explained that repealing the law would return the lost glory of Kano, noting that dividing Kano Emirate to five Emirates has reduced the capacity and dignity of the state at national level.
The majority leader, Lawan Dala on his part said that the emirate council served as a custodian of culture which was distorted by the creation of additional emirates, hence the need to revert to Kano historical background of one emirate, one people and one state.
The implication of the action of house of assembly was that the stool has been returned to the former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Muhammadu Sanusi who was dethroned by then administration in the state .
The former Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, on Thursday, hurriedly left Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, shortly after delivering his keynote speech at the ongoing Rivers State Economic and Investment Summit.
Sanusi was said to be delivering his speech when the news was about his reinstatement as Emir of Kano.
It was reported that there was that there was increased security around the traditional ruler as at the time he was exiting the Obi Wali International Conference Centre venue of the summit in Port Harcourt, thereby making it impossible for journalists to have a brief chat with him.
Meanwhile, Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has congratulated Sanusi II on his reinstatement as the 14th Emir of Kano.
Fubara, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt, said that he received the news of the reinstatement of the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) with great excitement, particularly coming at a time Khalifa Sanusi II was in the state to add impetus to his administration’s initiative to reshape the economic trajectory of the state.
The governor noted that his reinstatement by the Kano State government at this time showed that Muhammad Sanusi II’s dethronement on March 9, 2020, was against the wishes and aspirations of the great people of Kano State, and therefore, an unjust act to the millions of people who believed in his reign while on the revered throne.
