What Emir Sanusi told Security Chiefs at meeting

Information of the conversation between top security chiefs and Kano’s emir, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, has surfaced.

Sanusi and Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero, the deposed Emir of Kano, met separately with the Police Commissioner, the Director of the Department of State Services (DSS) in Kano, the Army Brigade Commander, and the commander of the National Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) amid the crisis that rocked the city on Saturday.

The statute that ex-Governor Abdullahi Ganduje used to overthrow Sanusi was abolished by the Kano House of Assembly.

On Thursday, Yusuf approved the law and gave the emirs who would be impacted 48 hours to leave their palaces.
Ado Bayero returned to Kano and took up residence in the palace at Nassarawa under strict military guard while four Emirs obeyed.

Shocked by the turn of events, Yusuf issued an order for his arrest, but the police refused to cooperate, insisting that they would follow the ruling that prohibited the Kano State government from bringing Sanusi back.
Governor Yusuf permitted the security chiefs to speak with Sanusi alone during their meeting at the Gidan Rumfa Palace, according to a source present at the palace.

According to the source, Sanusi was notified by the security chiefs of the decision to uphold the court injunction preventing his reinstatement.

“The emir, who spoke for over an hour during the meeting, told us that what the state government had done was justice against the injustice meted out to him in the past.

“He told us that he had not seen the court order we were referring to, describing it as a media court order until he sees it,” the source told Daily Trust.

Sanusi stated that his return proves that no man can alter what God ordained after receiving his letter of reinstatement from Governor Yusuf at the Africa House, Kano Government House, on Friday.

He had said, “The Arabians used to say in everything that we are going to witness, there is a lesson that shows us that God is there. Whatever that is happening to an individual is preordained by Allah and to those that are sensible enough, it’s a lesson.

“God is one and whatever He does, nobody can change and what He doesn’t do, nobody can. Time will not permit long talks. Whatever we will say, we have said it when we were leaving. We made it clear that God has preordained time and cause for everything and everyone. He gave leadership to whom he wants and at the time he wants. When He gives, no one can take it away and when he takes it away, nobody can take it back.

“This thing that has been brought to Kano, had it been it was allowed, one day we will wake up with Emir of Kumbotso, Bichi, Fagge and 44 Emirs. So what the government and the assembly did is a rescue mission.”