The Federal High Court has set aside the Kano State Emirate Law 2024, which dissolved the five Emirates in Kano State and reinstalled former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, as prime monarch.
The ruling of Thursday returns Sanusi to square one, and scuttles his reinstatement to a throne he lost after being dethroned in 2020 by former Governor Abdullahi Ganduje.
Moving against the new law a kingmaker in the former Kano Emirate, Aminu Babba Danagundi, the Sarkin Dawaki Babba, took the state government to court.
Danagundi challenged the propriety of the law and asked the court to declare it null and void.
The court dismissed all steps taken by the Kano State Government to repeal the Kano Emirates Council Law that provided backing for the dethroning of the 15th Emir of Kano, Ado Bayero, and four other monarchs.
Ruling on Thursday, Justice Abdullahi Muhammad Liman, set aside the action of the Kano government, and required parties to revert to status quo.
The Kano State House of Assembly had repealed the law enthroning the 15th Emir and the establishment of four emirate councils – Bichi, Rano Karaye and Gaya, by the immediate past Governor of the state, Dr, Abdullahi Ganduje.
However, the incumbent Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf had implemented the repealed law by dethroning Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero as Emir of Kano to reinstall the dethroned 14th Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi.
Sanusi succeeded his great-uncle Ado Bayero to the throne on 8 June 2014, assuming the regnal name Muhammadu Sanusi II.
He spent most of his reign advocating for cultural reform in Northern Nigeria
In 2020, he was dethroned by Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje and was succeeded by his cousin Aminu Ado Bayero.
On 23 May 2024, Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf reinstated him to the throne making him the 16th Fulani emir of Kano.
