Aminu Ado Bayero was never an emir of Kano, according to Sanusi Bature, Chief Press Secretary to Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State.
According to Bature, Bayero was named Emir of the eight Kano City Metropolitan local governments by former Governor Abdullahi Ganduje.
Speaking on Arise Television, Bature claimed that because of the emirate’s bastardization, Ganduje appointed Bayero as the emir of the metropolitan Kano metropolis.
Politics were introduced by Ganduje, according to Bature, into the Kano Emirate, which existed before Nigeria.
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“The governor’s action was to safeguard the emirate’s institutional integrity,” he stated. The Emirate of Nigeria has a thousand-year history of people coexisting under a single emir, predating both Nigeria and the nation’s constitution.
“The Ganduje administration that was in office before made the decision to politicise and pervert that history.
“During the campaign, Yusuf pledged to restore the lost prestige of the Emirate by politicising it.
“An emir has been removed before; Ganduje did it, and Sanusi fled Kano in search of calm before it rained. Sanusi has returned to Kano as a result of the law’s repeal.
“I want to be clear that Aminu Ado Bayero was appointed an emir of eight metropolitan local governments of Kano city, not an emir of Kano itself.
“Therefore, the Emirate Aminu served has been abolished with the modification of the law under one United Kano. He held the position of Emir of Kano City Emirate, having been elevated to it by Ganduje’s 2019 Emirate law, which corrupted the main Emirate.
“He was the 14th Emir of Kano, but he only had authority over the eight metropolitan areas, which have since been abolished. He did not have jurisdiction over the 44 local governments in Kano.”
Ado Bayero had been removed by Governor Yusuf, who also reinstated Muhammad Sanusi as the Emir of Kano.
In spite of the governor’s intervention, Ado Bayero has refused to leave his castle in Nassarawa.
Since then, Bayero has filed a legal challenge to the state government’s conduct.
