Gov Yusuf Gives Sacked Emirs 48 Hours To Pack Out As Kano Waits Sanusi’s Return

Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State has given the five former emirs affected by the dissolution of the emirate councils created by former Governor Abdullahi Ganduje to vacate the palaces in the former emirate councils within 48 hours.

He gave the directive as he assented to the law repealing the 2019 law that established the five emirate councils of Kano, Bichi Kaaraye, Gaya and Rano.

GWG.ng reports that the Kano State Emirates Council (Amendment number 2) Law, 2024, sponsored by the Majority Leader of the Kano State House of Assembly stipulates the abolition of the five emirates and reintegration of same into the old Kano Emirate balkanized by Ganduje.

Speaking minutes after signing the law, Governor Yusuf said that the action of his predecessor distorted a 1,000-year history of the Kano Emirate.

Following the assent of the repeal law, he directed the former emirs to vacate the palaces.

“The five former emirs affected by the new law have been given 48 hours from this hour to vacate the official residences palaces, offices and to hand over all properties of the former emirates to the honourable commissioner for local government and chieftains affairs who also doubles as the deputy governor of the state,” Governor Yusuf said on Thursday evening.

Meanwhile, GWG.ng gathered that as the pace for the dismantling of the five emirates gathered pace on Wednesday that the former emir of Kano, Alhaji Nasiru Bayero was visiting the Awujale of Ijebuland on the occasion of his 90^th birthday.

The former emir will now have to return to his private residence following the trip.

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