- Orders Police To Evict Deposed Emir Bayero From Mini Palace
By Abiola Olawale
The emirate crisis in Kano State has yet again taken another dramatic twist as the High Court of Kano State has barred the deposed Emir Aminu Ado Bayero from parading himself as Emir of Kano State.
The court also barred other deposed emirs from laying claim to the throne.
In an interim injunction granted on Monday, the presiding judge, Hon. Justice Amina Adamu Aliyu, also directed the Kano State Commissioner of Police to evict Bayero from the mini Palace in the Nasarawa area of the Kano metropolis.
The presiding judge’s ruling was a sequel to a motion filed by the State’s Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Speaker of Kano State House of Assembly, and the State House of Assembly in a suit against Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero and the four other deposed Emirs including Alhaji Nasiru Ado Bayero, Dr Ibrahim Abubakar II, Alhaji Kabiru Muhammad Inuwa, and Alhaji Aliyu Ibrahim Gaya.
Part of the order reads: “That an order is hereby granted to the extent that the Commissioner of Police Kano State should immediately take over the palace of the Emir of Kano situated being and lying at State Road Kano and evict the 1 Defendant/Respondent from the said palace pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice dated 24th May 2024.
“That an order of this Hon. Court is hereby granted restraining the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th Defendants from parading themselves as Emirs of Kano, Bichi, Gaya, Rano and Karaye in the interest of peace in Kano pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.
“That an order is hereby made that 1 – 5 Defendants be served through the office of the Commissioner Police, Kano State who is to ensure immediate implementation of the order of the Hon. Court in the interest of justice.”
The court adjourned the hearing of the motion on notice to June 11, 2024.
The New Diplomat reports that Kano state has been witnessing massive games of thrones after Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf signed the Kano State Emirate Council Law 2024.
The newly signed law dissolved four new Emirates in the State and restored Kano Emirate to its pre-2019 status on Thursday.
Yusuf also issued a reappointment letter to Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi II on Friday as the new Emir of Kano and ordered the emirs affected by the new law to vacate their palaces within 48 hours.
However, the Federal High Court sitting in Kano, on Friday granted an ex-parte order barring the state government from implementing the law.
