*Photo: Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi*
Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi II has been reinstated as the Emir of Kano.
This followed the Kano State House of Assembly’s resolution on Thursday, to dethrone the current Emir, Aminu Ado Bayero.
The parliament also dissolved the four new Emirates in the State established under a controversial 2019 law enacted during the regime of former governor Abdullahi Ganduje, now the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The Majority Leader of the Kano State House of Assembly, Lawan Hussaini Chediyar Yan Gurasa sponsored the Amendment Bill.
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi was deposed on 9 March 2020, by Ganduje who could no longer stomach the scathing criticism of his administration by the monarch.
He was not only replaced with Aminu Ado Bayero, the Kano Emirate was also broken into four by the then governor.
Today, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is back in the palace as the Emir of a re-unified Kano Emirate, largely due to the determination to cut Ganduje to size, by the current Governor of Kano State,
Abba Kabir Yusuf, a protege of Alhaji Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso.
Before he became governor, Ganduje had served as Kano State Deputy Governor when Kwankwaso was the governor but the two later became sworn political enemies.
Kwankwaso founded the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) which is currently the governing party in Kano.
Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf is a son-in -law Kwankwaso.
He is sustaining the political warfare between Ganduje and Kwankwaso.