Justice Abdullahi Liman of the Federal High Court, Kano, has set aside the reinstatement of Muhammadu Sanusi II as the Emir of the prestigious Kano Emirate.
In any case, the judge, turned down the application to declare the revised Kano Emirate law null and void, he overturned all the moves initiated by Lead Representative Abba Yusuf after the questionable law was altered by the Kano State House of Assembly on May 23, 2024.
Justice Liman blamed the Lead Representative’s assent to the bill and the presentation of an appointment letter to Emir Sanusi on May 24, 2024, regardless of a request for the court directing all parties to keep up with the status quo.
The judge said he paid attention to the statement of the Lead Representative in the media in the wake of consenting to the law, and he was convinced that the respondents (the governor and Kano State House of Assembly) knew about the request to keep up with the status quo pending the hearing and determination of the motions on notice in the court.
Justice Liman said the mess in the state could have been forestalled assuming that the respondents adhered to the court order, which ought to still have permitted them to execute their tasks.
The governmental issues of the ancient and esteemed Emirate of Kano has hurled a few questionable twists and turns over the most recent decade. not quite as sensational and stunning, ‘Game of Thrones’, its most recent contort is the stuff of a movie script where either a centuries-old tradition or politics wins.
