OPINION: Lamido Sanusi: Not yet bye-bye
I was personally spun into a ruffle and baffle when in 2014; Sanusi Lamido Sanusi jostled with others to become the new Emir of Kano. Inside of me, I queried Sanusi’s judgment. In wonderment I tried to figure out what was esthetical and bonny to Sanusi in a Kano emirate throne. But Sanusi desired to be Emir. That was his lifelong aspiration and thirst. Rabiu Kwankwaso; then Governor of Kano became the political facilitator who helped bring the dreams to fruition.
Amidst innuendoes and unproven allegations, he was evicted from Nigeria’s apex bank CBN as governor. At the CBN; Sanusi was relentlessly active about unearthing activities of frivolities and fraud in government. I watched many of his videos and listened to his talks splitting up the guts of the ruts that swallowed up Nigeria in the crude oil sector.
There are gossips here-and-there why Sanusi had to be dethroned. In a letter dated 9th March, 2020, the deposed Emir was alleged to have ‘disrespect to lawful instructions from the authorities’; and ‘refused to attend official programs and meetings organized by the Government’. An apparatchik of Kano State Government who was defending his principal on TV said that Ganduje dethroned Sanusi because of the way theGovernor was addressed in public. NIGERIAN politicianstruly think they are God.
Events surrounding the removal of Sanusi is indubitably a dirty political chess-game. They said he talked a lot. They said he dared a lot. They said he stepped on toes a lot. And they dethroned him. But Lamido Sanusi never allowed himself to be dethroned on his knees begging before men. He got dethroned standing up to those he believed are mean men who hate the spoken truth. SANUSI is a man. He is my kind of man. He is my kind of Emir. He is a star that can’t be shut down.
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