Abba Gida-Gida will review Sanusi’s dethronement as Emir of Kano — Kwankwaso
The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso has spoken on the removal of the former traditional monarch, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi as the 14th Emir of Kano.
The leader of the popular of the Kwankwasiyya Movement, Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso appointed the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN, Sanusi as the Emir of Kano during his second term in office as Governor.
The outgoing Governor of the state, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje who was the deputy governor of the state when Sanusi was made a traditional ruler dethroned him during his second term in office on March 9, 2020.
The Kano State government banished the embattled traditional ruler and sent him to Loko, a remote area in Nasarawa State and investigated the financial status of the emirate under Sanusi.
Kwankwaso has said that the removal of the former Emir and the division of the emirate would be revisited by the incoming administration of the Governor elect, Abba Kabir Yusuf popularly known as Abba Gida-Gida.
“We have campaigned and as you know we are popular in Nigeria especially in Kano state, we are now back and God willing we will continue with the good works our administration left. This incoming governor and his team will take them up.”
“As elders, we will continue to advise them to do the right thing. We tried not intervene in the issue of bringing or removing any Emir, but now, an opportunity has come.
“Those who were given this opportunity will sit down and see to the issues. They will look at what they are expected to do. Beside the Emir, even the emirate has been divided into five places. All these need to be studied. Usually a leader inherits good, bad and issues that are hard to reconcile.”
The Informant247 recalls that former President Goodluck Jonathan sacked Sanusi as the CBN boss over Sanusi’s claim that $49 billion was missing in the federation account and held some persons under the president responsible.
Reacting to the saga, Ganduje said: “Jonathan took a bold step in [removing] Sanusi as CBN governor, which created bad blood in certain circles. When Sanusi said $49 billion was lost in Jonathan’s government, I said in my mind that no, you could have discussed with him (Jonathan) privately.
“You could have given him this clue and then he would know how to investigate even before those who had stolen the money would find a way of hiding the money.
“That statement, I said in my mind was not honourable. That statement created bad blood… Sanusi was appointed Emir of Kano not because he was the best man for the throne but to retaliate what Jonathan did to him.
“That was in order to prove that what Jonathan did to him was wrong and that the people of Kano wanted their son as emir and, therefore, they decided to appoint him as emir. But when he was appointed, there were a lot of demonstrations with people burning tyres here and there. But because of government backing, he was sustained on the stool.
“When I became governor, (that’s why you will laugh), I said yes, Jonathan medicine is an important medicine. That medicine, even though I am not a medical doctor, but that medicine would serve the same purpose, for the same disease and for the same patient.
“So I took my Jonathan medicine and decided to save the system, to save the institution and I applied it effectively. So Jonathan and I are on the same page. Actually, I have no regrets.”
