Sanusi Condemns Ganduje’s Five Emirates In Kano As System Distortion

• Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi criticizes former Governor Ganduje’s creation of five Emirates in Kano, calling it an aberration and an assault on the traditional system.

• Sanusi argues that Kano existed before Nigeria and questions the constitutional right of the Kano State House of Assembly to amend the Emirate system.

• The issue is framed as a matter of preserving Kano’s history and culture, not about Sanusi personally.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has criticized former Governor Abdullahi Ganduje’s decision to create five Emirates in Kano, calling it an aberration and an assault on the traditional system.

In a recent interview with select journalists in Kano, Sanusi, who was reinstated as the sole Emir of Kano by Governor Abba Yusuf, emphasized that the issue at hand is not about him personally but about preserving the history and culture of the people of Kano.

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Sanusi argued that Ganduje’s actions attempted to create something out of nothing, thereby distorting the established system. He pointed out that Kano existed before the creation of Nigeria and noted that there is no law in the Nigerian constitution that established the Kano Emirate. Therefore, he questioned the constitutional right of the Kano State House of Assembly to amend something that was not created by the Constitution and does not exist within it.

In his words: “I am making this point so you understand that this is not about me versus somebody. This was an entire assault on a system. Even if you want to do it, if it has been well-motivated, if the people of Rano, or the other people want an emirate and the state government says they want to, there is a way of doing it. You sit down, ask who the ruling families are, and look at the history. This is how you do it, this is the process, and you do it in line with our culture and tradition.

“The Kano emirate was not created by the Nigerian constitution. The emirate existed before Nigeria. The Kano emirate existed before the Sokoto Jihad. Even Uthman Danfodio did not create the emirate. All that happened was that some of his disciples waged a Jihad in Kano and conquered Kano, but Kano was in existence.

“You will never find a law in the Nigerian constitution that created the Kano emirate. So, how does a State Assembly get the constitutional right to amend something that was not created by the Constitution and does not even exist in the Constitution? The laws you will see are emir’s appointment and deposition law. It already presumes that there is an emirate, but how do you appoint an Emir? Therefore, when he wanted to create these emirates, he could not find the laws to amend. He started by amending the emir’s appointment and devolution law, which the court struck down.

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“So, he had to do something out of nothing and created emirates, new emirates that never existed. Something called a Kano emirate with eight local governments has not existed in our 1000 years of history. The same thing with the Bichi emirate, none of them existed in 1000 years of history. A new governor comes and says this is an attack on our system and an attack on our collective history. We have to deal with it.

“That is all that happened. It was not targeted at any individual, at any family, at any person.”

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