“Kano state government officials have been saying they were directed to dethrone Mr Sanusi ll. Buhari instructed them.”
Rabiu Kwankwaso, former governor of Kano State, has alleged that the President, Muhammadu Buhari, order the dethronement of Muhammadu Sanusi as the Emir of Kano.
The Herald gathered that ex-governor Kwankwaso, who spoke with BBC Hausa on Wednesday, said that President Buhari is fond of interfering only in matters of interest to him.
He said that Buhari “doesn’t interfere where his intervention is needed but interferes on issues he is supposed to be neutral about.”
“We believe here in Kano that Buhari interferes where he wishes.
“Kano state government officials have been saying they were directed to dethrone Mr Sanusi ll. Buhari instructed them.”
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Meanwhile, the Attorney-General of Kano State, Ibrahim Muktar, has said that Governor Ganduje did not banish the deposed Emir, Muhammad Sanusi II.
According to Muktar who disclosed this while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily Programme on Wednesday, the state government only deposed the emir but never made mention of banishment.
He said,
“If you listen to the Secretary to the State Government when he was addressing the press on the issue of the removal of the emir from office, there was nowhere he stated that the emir was banished from Kano State.
“So, the decision of the government when the emir was removed on Monday was that he was removed from office and a new one appointed. The issue of banishment was not part of the decision of the Kano State Government.
“We have been hearing from the media that he has been banished but what I know is that he was taken out of Kano State but banishment was not part of our decision. There is no such decision to the best of my knowledge.”
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