The festering alleged moves by the Kano State authorities to reinstate deposed Emir of Kano, Alhaji Mohammad Sanusi Lamido on Tuesday January 23, 2024, recorded its first major casualty , with the arrest, arraignment and subsequent remand in a Kano Correctional facility of fiery Kano politician and social critic, Alhaji Abdulmajid Danbiliki,aka. Kwanmanda.
His ordeal came minutes before the commencement of a scheduled interactive session with The source News Magazine on some sundry issues ranging from the recent call by a purported APC Youth Group for the removal of Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje as the National Chairman, to an insight in to how the party in Kano is coping post Supreme Court affirmation of rival New Nigeria Peoples Party NNPP,s Abba Kabir Yusuf as the duly elected Governor of the state.
Danbiliki, a prominent member of both President Bola Tinubu ,and Nasiru Gawuna campaign organizations during the 2023 general elections was reportedly arrested by security operatives over alleged incendiary and provocative comments during a Kano local Radio programme.
The APC chieftain, is alleged to have threatened to mobilize the people in making the Centre of Commerce ungovernable, should the State authorities go ahead to make good their alleged plans to railroad Sanusi back to the throne.
Alhaji Abdullmajd, an unrepentant and vocal critic of the Kwankwasia political movement and its progenitor, former Presidential Candidate of the NNPP and former Governor of kano , Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, was remanded, after ruling on his bail application was reserved for January 29 ,by a Kano magistrate court .
The current ordeal of Danbiliki has, however, once more, brought to the front burner the heightened apprehensions, tension and anxiety that have persistently trailed the fate of the deposed Emir Sanusi and the five Emirs that subsequently emerged from the ashes of his dethronement in 2021 by the immediate past Governor of the state Dr Ganduje.
Since mounting the saddle ,Governor Yusuf, himself a scion of the Kano Royal Family, has not done much to clear the air, with his mien and that of his Political benefactor Rabiu Kwankwaso rather accentuating speculations that the subsisting royal architecture may not have been cast in stone.
Instructively, the clamour for the return of the deposed Emir is as old as the Government of Governor Yusuf, whose inauguration on May 29 2023 was over shadowed by chants by some widely perceived rented youths for Sanusi’s reinstatement
The Source’s findings have revealed that the fate of deposed Emir Sanusi and those of the present five Royal fathers of the State is being keenly monitored by not a few stakeholders and residents, who believe strongly that it holds equally much stake for the peace of the commercial hub of the Northern Region.
” Well, the sincere prayers of many well meaning people of kano is for wisdom and understanding to prevail on the issue at hand .
“We are grateful that Kano residents so far have proved to Nigerians and the entire world that they can manage their political differences, going by the peace prevalent in the state after the Supreme court judgment .
I believe that the same wisdom will be applied in the case of the speculations or what ever surrounding the royal stool of Kano .
I know that our leaders from all the political divides are conscious of the need to preserve the peace ,unity and cohesion among the people. In all , I can assure that in the end the over all interests of Kano people, the peace and stability of the state will supersede all other considerations” a prominent kano opinion leader stated.
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