Deposed Emir Aminu Ado Bayero and four other first class Emirs of Gaya, Rano, Karaye and Bichi were like commissioners appointed by former Governor Abdullahi Ganduje “to assist the All Progressives Congress (APC) in winning the 2023 elections”.
The Kano State Chairman of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Hashim Sulaiman Dungurawa, made the above allegation while addressing journalists at his office on Friday.
He explained that it was a gamble arranged to expire with the tenure of the former governor, who subsequently lost elections.
Dungurawa claimed that Bayero and his colleagues enjoyed the status of appointed commissioners by Ganduje.
The NNPP chairman added that it was a matter of public good that they ceased to be recognized after Ganduje’s tenure.
“The five first class emirs we met on the throne were only commissioners appointed by Ganduje to assist him to win elections in 2023. They were sustained and they lost. And so their tenure came to an end,” Dungurawa said.
“The fact remains that immediately Ganduje lost the elections and stepped down as Governor of Kano State, they ought to have also vacated their seats because none of them occupied the vacant seat of Emir of Kano since Muhammadu Sanusi II left.
“But may be they didn’t accept that their tenure has expired after their benefactor lost the elections which witnessed Ganduje’s exit from the the seat of power in the state.”
Dungurawa noted that the decision to relieve them of their traditional status was based on public outcry over the vacant position of Emir of Kano.
“The Governor, Abba Yusuf acted based on public outcry that there was vacuum in the seat of Emir of Kano and reinstated Muhammadu Sanusi II who was earlier dethroned. The lawmakers repealed the Kano Emirate council law 2019 and the governor assented to it,” he said.
He commended Justice A.M. Liman for handling the attendant legal tussle that was brought before his lordship in a professional way.
