Governor of Kano state, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has allegedly begun moves to remove Muhammad Sanusi II as the Emir of Kano.
This was as the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-corruption Commission reopened the long-abandoned investigation into the expenditure of the state emirate council under Sanusi II.
Also, the state’s house of assembly has been asked by the governor to create Kano emirates in Karaye, Bichi, Rano and Gaya.
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An official of the state government confided in The Cable that, “The governor is determined to remove the emir, and if this does not succeed, he will break the emirate into pieces to whittle down Sanusi’s power.”
The feud between the two leaders could be traced to 2017 when Sanusi became critical of Ganduje over the award of contracts to Chinese companies by the and the governors’ pointless foreign trips.
Shortly after the comment, the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission alleged the misappropriation of N6billion by the Kano emirate council “without the approval of the state government”.
The probe was stopped at the moment, but the governor has reportedly influenced its revival.