Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje
A Kano High Court has nullified the appointment of four new emirs
upgraded to the status of first-class emirs by Governor Abdullahi Umar
Ganduje.
Subsequently, the court invalidated and ordered the immediate
dissolution of their emirate councils established alongside the emir’s
appointment.
The emirs are Emir of Bichi, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero; emir of Karaye,
Alhaji Ibrahim Abubakar; emir of Rano, Alhaji Tafida Abubakar and Emir
of Gaya, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdulkadir.
Governor Ganduje appointed the four emirs as first-class chiefs and
upgraded their domain into emirate councils, a deliberate attempt to
decimate Emir of Kano Mohmmadu Sanusi.
Prior to the appointment of the new emirs, Kano state government had
sent an executive bill for the amendment of Kano state chieftaincy law
to the state assembly.
In his ruling presiding Judge, Justice Usman Na’Abba insisted the
additional four emirates and their first-class emirs created by Kano
State Government were not properly constituted and thereby render
invalid.
Justice Usman also ruled that the Kano State House of Assembly had
violated the provision of Section 101 of the 1999 Constitution of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended), which allows the assembly to
make laws, insisted the law creating the emirates were null and void.