Uproar In Kano Over Alleged Nullification Of Sanusi’s Appointment As Emir By President Jonathan
Category: Nigerian National News
There was an uproar today, Wednesday in Kano as rumors spread that president Goodluck Jonathan
has decided to arrest newly installed Emir Of Kano, Sanusi Lamido
Sanusi, thus effectively reversing the decision of Governor Rabiu
Kwankwaso who picked Sanusi for the throne.
A section of Kano indigenes who are displeased by the governor’s
decision went wild with jubilation tonight as rumors spread through the
city that Mr. Jonathan had finalized plans to remove the new
traditional ruler and detain him. Mr. Sanusi, the immediate past
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, is deemed as a political foe of
President Jonathan.
The two men disagreed over whether billions of dollars in oil export
earnings had been stolen. Mr. Jonathan suspended Mr. Sanusi from the CBN
after the nation’s banker accused officials of the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) of failing to deposit oil revenues worth
more than $20 billion in the Central Bank.
Last week, following the death of 84-year-old former Emir, Ado Bayero, Governor Kwankwaso tipped Mr. Sanusi to be the new emir.
A jubilant crowd massed around the emir’s palace in anticipation of the official announcement of the president’s action.
SaharaReporters learned that Governor Kwankwaso is currently in Abuja to attend the convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
A source close to the governor accused the Presidency of
orchestrating the rumor about Mr. Sanusi’s ostensibly removal. “This
whole rumor was calculated to cause a new
set of rioting in Kano,” said the source. He added that Mr. Jonathan
and his cronies had designed a plot to create destabilization in Kano in
order to give the president a pretext to declare a state of emergency
in Kano.
President Jonathan has yet to congratulate Mr. Sanusi on his appointment as the new emir.
Prior to Mr. Sanusi’s elevation to emir, there had been rumors that
the kingmakers of Kano had chosen one of the sons of the late Ado Bayero
as the new Emir. Some of the rumors were linked to Presidency and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
The Presidency went as far as cloning a twitter account in the name
of the former CBN governor and used it to create the impression that Mr.
Sanusi had announced a new Emir.
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