Ganduje assents to controversial bill reducing Emir Sanusi’s influence

NEWS DIGEST - Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State on Wednesday assented to a controversial bill approving the creation of four additional emirates in the state, effectively reducing the influence of the Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi.

With the new Emirates, the governor said: “the traditional institution will now go closer to the people in all nooks and crannies of the state. We are about to make history today and in the Holy Month of Ramadhan.”

The newly created emirate councils are Gaya, Rano, Karaye, and Bichi.Kano now has five independent emirate councils, including the Kano Emirate Council headed by the former Central Bank of Nigeria governor, Mr Sanusi.

Inside sources said that the law was initiated by the governor but presented to the House by proxy.

According to the final amended copy of the law, Emir of Kano was allocated Kano Municipal, Tarauni, Dala, Nassarawa, Fagge, Gwale, Kumbotso and Ungogo Local Government Areas.

Click link to read more to see the control of LGAs by the new emirs: https://newsdigest.ng/featured/2019/05/08/ganduje-assents-controversial-bill/

No matter how the wind howls, the mountain can never bow to it?

Good development, Lagos has many monarch so does almost many other states Except Kano, and perhaps Ibadan which isnt a state