…Orders Police to evict him from mini palace
Kano State High Court has ordered Aminu Ado Bayero to stop parading himself as the Emir of Kano, and asked the Police to eject him from Nasarawa royal residence.
This comes against an earlier order of a Federal High Court, sitting in Kano, which stopped the State government from scrapping the emirates created by ex-governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, and reinstating Sanusi Lamido as governor.
Recall that Governor Abba-Yusuf had assented to the repeal of the Kano Emirates Council Law amended by the State’s House of Assembly and announced the reinstatement of Sanusi as the new emir.
However, while other emirs complied, Aminu Ado Bayero refused citing the court order which annulled his dethronement.
The issue led to protests on Sunday, whereby supporters of Aminu Bayero were seen asking the Government to obey the court order.
The presiding judge, Justice A’isha Adamu Aliyu, also ordered the Commissioner of Police in Kano to take over palace and evict the 15th emir.
In an interim order, granted on the 27th of May, 2027, indicated that, an order of interim injunction is hereby granted restraining the 1, 2, 3rd 4th & 5th Defendants, either by themselves, servants, privies, and/or any other persons or officers serving under them, or acting in connection with any other person from parading themselves as Emirs of Kano, Bichi, Gaya, Rano and ?araye pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice filed by the Applicants.
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, being and lying at State Road Kano and evict the 1st 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 ?araye, in the interest of peace in Kano pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice. That the Motion on Notice, dated Mat 24, 2024 is adjourned to 11th June, 2024 for hearing.
Respondents in the matter are: the deposed Emirs of ?araye, Gaya, Bichi, Rano, Kano, IGP, Director DSS, NSCDC and the Army. The applicants are the Attorney-General of Kano State, Speaker, House of Assembly and Kano State House of Assembly.
VoL reports that the Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice, Haruna Isah Dederi, had told the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Hausa service, that the State Government received the earlier order granted by a Federal High Court stopping the reinstatement of the Emir after action has already been completed yesterday.
