Opposition federal lawmakers from different political parties under the aegis of G-60 have told the Federal Government to steer clear the emirate crisis unfolding in Kano State.
Following a repeal of the Kano State Emirates Council Law, Abba Yusuf, governor of Kano, had reinstated Muhammadu Sanusi as Emir of Kano last Friday, and ordered the Emirs affected by the law to vacate their palaces within 48 hours.
A few hours after Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II led Jumat prayers at Government House and moved to the palace, the dethroned Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero, arrived in the state and settled into a mini palace, prompting Governor Yusuf to order his arrest on grounds of allegedly fueling tension.
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Addressing a press briefing at the headquarters of the command on Saturday morning, the commissioner of Police, Usaini Mohammed Gumel, said security operatives would obey an earlier court order which restrained the Kano government from reinstating Sanusi.
Weighing in on the issue, the G-60 lawmakers in a statement jointly signed by Obi Aguocha of Labour Party and Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere of the Peoples Democratic Party, told the Federal Government not to destabilise the already fragile North-western state by wading into the chieftaincy affairs of the Kano Emirate which, they say, is internal and within the purview of the Kano government authority.
The statement adds that the group is in full support of the Kano State Government’s reinstatement of Emir Sanusi whose removal and banishment, they said, was an attack and desecration of the revered ancient traditional institution in the first instance and the correction of what they labelled an anomaly, deserves support of all peace and justice loving Nigerians.
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