NSA, Gov Yusuf Fail to Resolve Emirate Tussle in Kano
The meeting between the National Security Adviser (NSA), Malam Nuhu Ribadu and Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano may have ended without a pathway to resolving the crisis over the Kano Emirate stool, which is claimed by Muhammadu Sanusi II and Aminu Ado Bayero.
The Kano State had recently passed a law abolishing four emirate councils, which were created back in 2019 by the government of Abdullahi Ganduje and revert to one emirate. The state government subsequently appointed Sanusi as Emir of Kano.
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Apart from the partisan wrangling, a legal tussle has since ensued with the state high court issuing orders in support of Sanusi, while the federal high court in the state has issued rulings that appear in support of Ado Bayero.
The state government initially suggested that the NSA, Nuhu Ribadu had a hand in the return of Bayero to the state but later put the blame on the All Progressives Congress, with its chairman and former Kano governor, Abdullahi Ganduje as the lead instigator.
But Governor Yusuf’s NNPP government has chosen to work around the former Kano governor and met with Ribadu on Thursday. The office of the NSA however refused to disclose the outcome of the hour-long meeting.
The spokesman of the NSA, Zakari Mijinyawa told newsmen Weekend that it was a closed meeting and referred reporters to the state governor, whose office released a statement and pictures of the meeting.
