The governor of Kano, Abba Yusuf says he is going to report the judge who tried to stop the reinstatement of Muhammadu Sanusi as Emir.
The state house of assembly, on Thursday passed the amended Kano State Emirate Council (Repeal) Bill 2024. Eventually, the bill was signed into law by the governor.
The law repealed the 2019 variant, which partitioned the Kano emirate into five jurisdictions and was relied upon to dethrone Sanusi as Emir in 2020.
Several hours after, a federal high court in Kano ordered the state government not to enforce the fresh law.
Ruling in a litigation filed by Aminu Babba Dan Agundi, Mohammed Liman, the judge, told the defendants to “suspend” and “not give effect to the Kano State Emirate Council (Repeal) Law, 2024 as they affect all offices and institutions of the Emirate Council created pursuant to the provisions of the Kano State Emirate Council Law, 2019”.
Governor Yusuf, speaking after the reinstatement of Sanusi on Friday, stated that the judge who issued the directive did so from the United States.
“The person that issued the court order was in America but he is ordering us to stop what we are doing,” Yusuf said.
“This issue of abuse I must present before the governors’ forum so that we can tackle it accordingly.
“We are agents of following due process, that’s why we did what we did openly before everybody. Those that are meant to maintain that rule of law must follow that also.”