Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai has been received with cheers and smiles as he visits Muhammad Sanusi II, deposed emir of Kano, in Awe Nasarawa on Friday.
The deposed emir had been appointment by El-Rufai barely 24 hours after he was dethroned by the Kano State Government, as the vice-chairman of Kaduna Investment Promotion Agency (KADIPA), and the Chancellor of Kanadu State University.
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Meanwhile, the Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the immediate release of dethroned Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi Lamido from confinement.
The order was given by justice Anwuli Chikere in an ex-parte ruling on Friday morning after listening to Sanusi’s lawyer, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN) who argued a motion ex-parte to that effect.
The order, made interim, is directed at the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Attorney General of Kano State and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) who are all named as respondents in a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed on March 12, 2020 by Sanusi.
Chikere, in the ruling, said: “An interim order of this honourable court releasing the applicant from the detention and or confinement of the respondents and restoring the applicant’s rights to human dignity, personal liberty, freedom of association and movement in Nigeria, (apart from Kano State) pending the hearing and determination of the applicant’s originating summons.”