Kano kingmakers seek to stop Ganduje from deposing Emir Sanusi
Kingmakers in the Kano emirate, have filed a case against the Governor of the state, Abdullahi Ganduje, for splitting the emirate.
The kingmakers — Yusuf Nabahani , Abdullahi Sarki Ibrahim , Bello Abubakar and Mukhtari Adnan — were listed as first, second, third and fourth plaintiffs respectively. “The defendants, in purporting to amend the Emirs Law, 1984 have desecrated centuries old and highly revered traditions and heritage of the people of Kano and have uprooted the Plaintiffs various traditional titles without giving a hearing to the Plaintiffs and their clans or having regards to ancestral history by hurriedly enacting the Kano State Emirs law, 2019.
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