Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state has disclosed that Muhammad Sanusi, the former emir of Kano can live any where in Nigeria.
El-Rufai disclosed this on Friday, March 13, in Nasarawa state during his visit to Sanusi who was banished to the state after his dethronement by Governor Umar Ganduje.
The governor said: “He can live anywhere he wants including Kano city, if he wants.”
Earlier, The Herald reported that 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.”