Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State on Thursday evening signed the Emirate Repeal Law 2024 dissolving the five Emirate Councils in the State.
The law was created by the immediate-past Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2019.
The New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP): Governor also officially reinstated the deposed 14th Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II back to the Kano throne, barely four years after he was deposed.
The Daily Crucible reports that Sanusi who was in Port – Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, was said to have abruptly left the Garden City where he was being received by Governor Siminalayi Fubara, for Kano when the news broke that the State Assembly lawmakers had perfected the law providing for the dissolution of the five Emirates.
Addressing the newsmen shortly after assenting the new law, governor Yusuf revealed that the five dethroned Emirs have 48 hours within which to leave the palaces and submit all official items in their possession to the office of the deputy governor of the state, who doubles as the Commissioner for Local Governments and Chieftaincy Affairs.
Governor Yusuf also called for peace, calm and harmony in the state during the transition period.
