Abba Yusuf, governor of Kano, says he will report the judge who tried to stop the reinstatement of Muhammadu Sanusi as Emir.
On Thursday, the state house of assembly passed the amended
Kano State Emirate Council (Repeal) Bill 2024. Afterwards, the bill was signed
into law by the governor.
The law repealed the 2019 version, which balkanised the Kano
emirate into five jurisdictions and was relied upon to depose Sanusi as Emir in
2020.
Hours later, a federal high court in Kano ordered the state
government not to enforce the new law.
Ruling in a suit filed by Aminu Babba Dan Agundi, Mohammed
Liman, the judge, asked the defendants to “suspend” and “not give effect to the
Kano State Emirate Council (Repeal) Law, 2024 as they affect all offices and
institutions of the Emirate Council created pursuant to the provisions of the
Kano State Emirate Council Law, 2019”.
Speaking after the reinstatement of Sanusi on Friday, the
governor said the judge who issued the order did so from the United States.
“The person that issued the court order was in America but
he is ordering us to stop what we are doing,” Yusuf said.
“This issue of abuse
I must present before the governors’ forum so that we can tackle it
accordingly.
“We are agents of following due process, that’s why we did
what we did openly before everybody. Those that are meant to maintain that rule
of law must follow that also.”
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