Both men were dismissed for alleged insubordination by the former Kano emirs.
, is requesting from the state’s House of Assembly, an amendment to the state’s emirate law 2019 to include two emirate officials earlier sacked by two former emirs.
Mr Babba-Danagundi challenged his removal by late Mr Bayero in court. However, 17 years after, the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the late emir, upholding the emirate’s resolution. Mr Babba-Danagundi challenged his removal at the state’s high court where the court ordered for his reinstatement. The Kano emirate appealed the judgement. However, the appeal court also ruled in favour of the dismissed emirate official.
The apex court’s judgment was delivered six years after Mr Bayero’s death and seventeen years after the dismissal of the embattled Mr Babba-Danagundi.The former ‘Chiroman Kano’, Sanusi Ado-Bayero, was also stripped of his traditional title following his alleged refusal to accept and pay homage to the then newly crowned emir Muhammadu Sanusi.
He has now been appointed as the new ‘Wamban Kano’, also a designated kingmaker. He has since paid homage to his brother, Emir Aminu Ado-Bayero.The state’s Commissioner for Information, Muhammad Garba, defended Mr Ganduje’s decision for considering Mr Babba-Danagundi as a Kano kingmaker, despite the Supreme Court’s verdict against the embattled official.
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