Court orders Bayero, four others to stop parading selves as Emirs

Justice Amina Aliyu has ruled that Aminu Ado-Bayero and four other deposed Emirs of Bichi, Rano, Gaya and Karaye can no longer parade themselves as Emirs. 

The presiding judge at the Kano State High Court also restrained the 15th Emir of Kano and four other dethroned Emirs by themselves, servants, privies and any other persons appointed by them from parading themselves as Emirs of Kano, Bichi, Gaya, Rano, Karaye.

The Kano State Government had filed a suit asking the state High Court to order the 15th Emir, Bayero, and four other Emirs of Karaye, Bichi, Rano and Gaya from parading themselves as Emirs. The government wanted the court to order the deposed Emirs to vacate their respective palaces within 48 hours.

But Justice Aliyu, counter the second motion on the geound that the issue of evicting the deposed Emir, Bayero, from his Nassarawa mini palace is a rent tribunal matter and is not before it.

While directing the deposed Emir and four other former Emirs to quickly hand over all the Emirate Traditional Royal Artefacts to the government and the substantive Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, Justice Aliyu also said that the State Assembly Emirate Council Repeal Law 2024 was done according to the Law as enshrined in Section 4 of the Constitution.

Similarly, she ruled that the State Governor, Abba Yusuf, assenting to the law is also done perfectly according to the Constitution.