“Why We Dethroned Sanusi” – Kano State Govt

The Kano State Government has made more revelations about
what led to the deposed of Lamido Sanusi II.

The state government held that Sanusi was queried four times
by the administration of Rabiu Kwankwaso for disrespecting the tradition of the
emirate and also had been on loggerhead with Kano State governor, Abdullahi
Ganduje for three years.

The spokesperson to the governor of Kano, Mr. Salihu Yakasai
featuring on a private radio station in Osogbo, Osun State, Rave FM on the
programme, Frank Talk on Tuesday stated that only the people who have not been
following several developments in Kano State about Sanusi are the one that is
shocking about his dethronement.

Yakasai noted that reasons for his dethronement have been
going on for three years which he pointed insubordination as part of the
reasons for dethroning him.

He opined that no state governor in Nigeria can tolerate his
(Sanusi) insubordination like Ganduje did in the past three years.

He said, “No matter how highly placed the emir is,
constitutionally is at the mercy of the state governor. If you remove sentiment
and emotion from the issue, you will know that emir is an appointment from the
governor. There are certain expectations from Emir and part of it is to respect
the constituted authority and he has a limit which he has been crossing for
3years.

He, however, said Sanusi was not sacked for allegation of
corruption but on the ground of disobeying the law.

He said “the position of Emir comes with its own
restrictions which Sanusi didn’t take cognizance of. Sanusi did not grow up in
Kano state. He does not understand the traditional institution that he was
occupying.

” Sanusi always goes to the gallery to talk about issues to
get applause. At the tail end of the administration of former governor of Kano,
Rabiu Kwankwaso reintroduced ban of street begging and that time Sanusi was
accommodating the Alimajiris in his palace, feeding them and on that particular
issue, he was given four queries for disobeying him and governor Ganduje for
the past five years gave him one.

Among other reasons he gave was that Sanusi was
participating in politics, destruction of cultural heritage, shunning programme
of government on educating to solve the challenges of Almajiris.

Yakasai also said, “He speaks other languages in Kano which
is against the tradition. An Emir must not speak another language other than
Hausa to preserve the language as a custodian of the language.

” The place which had been existing for long, when he came
he demolished everything and erected another one. How’s he preserving
tradition?

“He always goes out to condemn his own people on several
issues. An Emir should not do that. He always negative to his own people.

He was also identifying with the People’s Democratic Party
(PDP) both within and outside the state.

However, Yakasai noted that the restriction on Sanusi to
Nasarawa is indefinite. He can’t be anywhere else aside where he was banished
until he’s pardon by the State governor.