The hearing on the Kano Emirates dispute has commenced at the Federal High Court complex on Court Road in Kano, with security forces substantially deployed in and around the building.
The hearing on the restraining order against the Kano government’s reinstatement of Muhammadu Sanusi II as the 16th Emir was pushed back to today due to the statewide strike over the new minimum wage, which began last Thursday.
It should be noted that a Federal High Court in Kano granted an order preventing the Kano State Government from executing the Kano State Emirate Council Repeal Law.
Aminu Babba Dan Agundi, the Kano Emirate’s Sarkin Dawaki Babba, applied for the injunction, which was granted by Justice Mohammed Liman.
At Thursday’s resumed hearing, officials from the Nigeria Police Force and Department of State Services (DSS) positioned their cars strategically around the court to prevent a breakdown in law and order and to limit mobility.
Cars, automobiles, and motorcycles are presently being redirected from Court Road to Zoo Road and the Gyadi-Gyadi section of town until the outcome of the lawsuit.
Recall that the state’s crisis began two weeks ago when Kano State Governor Abba Yusuf removed Ado Bayero as Kano’s Emir, along with four other first-class Emirs from Rano, Bichi, Karaye, and Gaya.
He reinstalled Lamido Sanusi as Emir following the annulment of the ordinance used by former Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje to depose and exile him in 2020.
In 2020, Sanusi, the then-14th Emir of Kano, was deposed for suspected insubordination to the Abdullahi Ganduje-led administration, and Bayero was appointed as his replacement.
Ganduje also ordered the banishment of the previous governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria to Awe, a rural village in Nasarawa State.
However, in an effort to reinstall Sanusi, the state House of Assembly, which is controlled by the New Nigeria Peoples Party, approved the Kano State Emirate Council (Repeal) Bill 2024, which superseded the Kano State Emirates Council Law of 2019.
The law disbanded the five emirate councils in the state: Bichi, Karaye, Gaya, and Rano, as well as Kano, which Ganduje established.
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