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Presidency has said sitting governors could exercise powers over royal institutions within their jurisdiction, in reaction to the dethronement of Muhammed Sanusi II as the Emir of Kano by the Kano State Government.
Reacting to the development on Tuesday, Tolu Ogunlesi, one of the media aides of President Muhammadu Buhari said, “A sitting Governor can dethrone anybody – as in they have the power to. That’s the way the system is set up. Nobody is above being dethroned. Governors formally appoint them, present them staff of office, fund their offices. Whether this should be so is another matter entirely.
He said governors have veto powers over monarchs in their states just as Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State who “paraded Rivers traditional rulers recently and addressed them like a kindergarten class. That’s the power a Governor has over royal institutions. Every Governor. It actually didn’t start today, has been so for a long long time”.
The Special Assistant to the President on News Media further stated that the dethronement of a monarch in the capacity of the Emir of Kano was not new, adding that Sanusi’s fate was not only peculiar to the northern part of the country while citing a list of deposed kings in different parts of Nigeria.
British deposed Obas of Lagos/Benin 1851/1897; Alake temporarily deposed by 1948 women’s riots; Awo deposed Alaafin 1955; Olowo deposed 1966; Edo Milad tried to remove Oba of Benin as Chair, State Trad Rulers Council 1999; Deji of Akure deposed 2010,” Ogunlesi said in a flurry of tweets.



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