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  • Durbar ban: Sanusi abandons horses, drives in vehicle to pay Sallah homage

    Durbar ban: Sanusi abandons horses, drives in vehicle to pay Sallah homage

    KANO — In the face of a ban on all Sallah Durbar activities in Kano State, the 16th Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has driven in a vehicle to pay Sallah homage on Governor Abba Yusuf at the Kano State Government House.

    With this development, the Emir abandoned the use of horses which is the normal tradition and means of transportation for Hawan Nassarawa.

    Emir Sanusi also changed his normal routes from the Emir’s palace to the state road to the Government House to avoid security breaches.

    Earlier, the Commissioner of Police in Kano, CP Adamu Bakori, announced the ban of all forms of Sallah Durbar activities in the state, citing impending security threat revealed by intelligence gathering.

    Shedding more light on the development, a Professor of History from the famous Bayero University of Kano, BUK, Prof. Tijjani Naniya, said the Emir only went back to the old tradition in 1903 where the Emir visited the governor using a vehicle but by 1940 the use of horses was introduced.

    He said the visit to the governor was to brief him on developments in the state as well as the report received by the Emirate.

    According to him, “Before 1940, there was no Wajen Kano, that is outskirts the City, and the Emir as the head of Native Authority, NA, he will only pay his visit to the resident of the Governor at Government House to brief him on the yearly happenings in the City as well as report he received in the emirate and returned to his Palace.

    “But by 1940 and when outskirts Kano that is Wajen Kano was created and there were People who though must of whom were Hausas but not of Kano extraction, the Emir needed to go round and see them, the present day Hawan Nassarawa using Horses was introduced.

    “…what was stopped is for the Emir to ride on horses and pass through State Roads, that for sure would create a problem but now that he has returned to the original means of the Hawan Nassarawa tradition there is no violation.

    “And the Emir is only coming to Government House as against the usual Hawan Nassarawa that he will ride horses, go round Kano to greet everybody and return to his palace,” Prof. Naniya stated.

  • Kano Emirate Tussle: Appeal Court halts Emir Sanusi’s reinstatement

    Kano Emirate Tussle: Appeal Court halts Emir Sanusi’s reinstatement

    The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Friday, suspended the execution of its judgement that reinstated a former Governor of the Central Bank, CBN, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, as the 16th Emir of Kano.

    The appellate court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel led by Justice Okon Abang, halted the implementation of the judgement, to await the outcome of an appeal that is pending before the Supreme Court.
    The court held that it found merit in applications marked: CA/KN/27M/2025 and CA/KN/28M/2025, which were brought before it in respect of the Kano Emirate tussle.

    Specifically, the appellate court held that: “An injunction is hereby granted restraining the respondents (Kano State House of Assembly, Kano State Government, etc.), either by themselves, their agents, privies, servants, or personal representatives, from enforcing the judgment of this Court in Appeal No.

    CA/KN/126/2024 – Kano State House of Assembly & Anor Vs Alhaji Aminu Babba-Dan’Agundi & Others, delivered on 10/1/2025, pending the hearing and determination of the Applicant’s appeal filed on 24/1/2025 before the Supreme Court of Nigeria.”

    The panel further directed the parties to maintain the status quo ante bellum, pending the judgement of the apex court, even as it gave the Applicant 48 hours to file an undertaking to indemnify the Respondents in damages, in the event that the orders ought not to have been made.

    It will be recalled that the appellate court had on January 10, voided the June 20, 2024, decision of Justice Abubakar Liman of the Federal High Court, which invalidated the Kano State Emirates Council (Repeal) Law 2024 that facilitated Sanusi’s reappointment.

    According to the appellate court, Justice Liman was bereft of the jurisdiction to nullify the steps the Kano State Government took pursuant to the 2024 Emirates Council Law.

    It held that a fundamental rights enforcement suit that was filed by an aggrieved kingmaker in the state, Alhaji Aminu Babba Dan Agundi, which the high court judge relied upon to issue the order, was incompetent.