Emirship Tussle: It doesn’t matter if another governor dethrone me as Emir – Sanusi

The reinstated Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, has disclosed that he is not worried about the possibility of another governor dethroning him.

It would be recalled that former Governor Abdullahi Ganduje had dethroned Sanusi in 2020 following a personal rift.

However, Sanusi was reinstated by Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf, where Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero, the 15th Emir, contested his dethronement in the court.

Meanwhile, Sanusi, while speaking with Saturday Sun, said only God knows how long he will stay on the throne.

He said: “For me, even now that I am here, only God knows how long I will be here. I can die tomorrow. Another governor can come tomorrow and say that he has removed me; it doesn’t matter.

“But I am happy if he does not touch the emirate. I am happy that I will not leave a history that it was during my time that these 1000 years of history was destroyed.

“So, I am grateful to this government, grateful to this Assembly that they have corrected that, that we have the emirate restored to what it was and Insha’Allah that when I die or when I leave, the person who inherits will inherit what we had. It’s about the system, not about me or about any individual.”

On the lessons he learnt while away from the throne in the last four years, the Emir said: “Life is always a continuous process of learning and relearning. And for me, I had always believed, as they say, that we should not waste a crisis. So, anytime I have a crisis, it’s an opportunity to do something else.

“In the last four years, I’ve not been idle. In fact, I had just completed writing a PhD Thesis in the University of London a week before I returned to Kano. I will be going back next month to conclude some things because I will be graduating in September.”