Former Governor of Kano State and the leader of the Kwankwasiyya movement, Sen. Rabi’u Kwankwaso, has said that the issue of Kano emirates will definitely be revisited.
Recall that former Governor Abdullahi Ganduje had split the Kano emirate into five and dethroned the then Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II.
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Following the victory of the New Nigerian Peoples Party in last year’s election, Kwankwaso had said the government of Engr. Abba Kabir Yusuf would review the dethronement and balkanisation of the emirate.
Speaking in an interview granted to select radio stations in Kano on Thursday night, the NNPP leader restated that the issue of Kano emirates will definitely be revisited.
“Honestly it is one of the things that nobody has sat with me to discuss so far but I am sure we are going to sit and see how to go about it. Is it going to be allowed, demolished, corrected or whatever? It will be revisited, what’s supposed to be done will be done.
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“There were a lot of things and this was a trap. All these things were not done in good faith or intention. It was brought with some bad intentions which everyone of you here and our listeners are aware of.
“Sometimes you come with things that are good and they turn out to be bad while sometimes you bring things that are bad and they turn out to be good. So, all I know is that I was not consulted as of now but definitely we will come to discuss and see what should be done.”
It has been observed that after the Supreme Court validated the victory of Governor Yusuf, there were intensified calls for the reinstatement of the former Kano Emir, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II.
Meanwhile, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Kano, Alhajj Alhassan Yaryasa had on Thursday (Yesterday) advised Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf against any attempt to sack the five Emirs in the state.
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Yaryasa, who is a former coordinator of the Tinubu Camping Organisation for Kano South, gave the advice in an interview with The Punch, saying the advice was necessary in the interest of peace following recent calls on the governor to dissolve the Emirates by some people who are bent on causing trouble in the state and creating disaffection between the government and people of the Emirates.
He said any attempt to scrap the emirates would not augur well for the state as it would be greeted with stiff resistance especially from the people of the Emirates.
