Kano Emirate Tussle: Court Delivers Judgement on Suit Seeking to Stop Bayero, 4 Others as Emir
- Kano Emirate battle worsened as the court delivered a judgement on Monday against the deposed Emir Ado Bayero and his counterparts
- In a lead judgement by Justice Amina Adamu Aliyu, Bayero and four others were barred from parading themselves as the Emirs of Kano, Bichi, Rano, Gaya, and Karaye
- This came weeks after the court sacked Sanusi II as the 16th Kano Emir and reinstated Bayero
Legit.ng journalist Esther Odili has over two years of experience covering political parties and movements.
On Monday, July 15, the high court, Kano division, restrained Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero and four other dethroned emirs from parading themselves as the Emirs of Kano, Bichi, Rano, Gaya, and Karaye.
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In her judgement, Justice Amina Adamu Aliyu held that the 15th Emir of Kano Bayero and four other Emirs should stop parading themselves as Emirs of Kano, Bichi, Gaya, Rano, and Karaye, The Nigerian Tribune reported.
Bayero stopped from parading as Emir
As reported by PM News, this judgement contradicts the June 20 judgement of a Federal High Court in Kano nullifying the reinstatement of Muhammad Sanusi II as the 16th Emir of Kano, barely a month after he was restored to the throne by the Kano state governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf.
Recall that the Kano state government had filed a suit asking the state high court to stop the 15th Emir, Bayero, and four other Emirs of Karaye, Bichi, Rano and Gaya from parading themselves as Emirs.
The government also gave the deposed Emirs 48 hours within which to vacate their respective palaces after being deposed.
However, while delivering the judgment, Justice Aliyu said the issue of evicting the deposed Emir, Bayero, from his Nasarawa mini palace was a rent tribunal matter and was not before it.
In her judgment, she directed the deposed Emir and four other former Emirs to quickly hand over all the Emirate Traditional Royal Artefacts to the government and the substantive Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II.
Justice Aliyu also said that the State Assembly Emirate Council Repeal Law 2024 was done according to the law as enshrined in Section 4 of the Constitution.
Fire guts Kano Emir Sanusi’s palace
Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that some yet-to-be-identified persons reportedly set a section of Kano Emir Sanusi's palace on fire.
The fire outbreak reportedly occurred at the palace at the Gidan Rumfa and a source disclosed the throne, air conditioners, and other valuables were destroyed in the inferno.
The Chief of Staff to the Emir, Munir Sanusi Bayero, Dan Buram Kano, confirmed the incident via a statement and shared further details.
Proofreading by Nkem Ikeke, journalist and copy editor at Legit.ng.
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