Sanusi dethroned

[Toyin Falola]

[Toyin Falola]

*BREAKING: Kano dethrones Emir Sanusi*

March 9, 2020
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Abuja
The Kano State Government led by Abdullahi Ganduje has announced the sacking of the Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II.

The Director-General, Media and Communications, Kano State Government, Salihu Yakasai, said this on his official Twitter handle, @Dawisu, on Monday.

“The Kano State Executive Council has unanimously approved the dethronement of the Emir of Kamo Mallam Muhammad Sanusi II at a special sitting held today by the council,” he tweeted.

Sanusi ascended the throne in 2014, following the death of his granduncle Ado Bayero. His grandfather Muhammadu Sanusi I reigned from 1953 to 1963, when he was deposed by Premier Ahmadu Bello. His father Aminu Sanusi was Ciroma of Kano.

Prior to his ascension, Sanusi was an economist and banker. He served as the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria from 2009 to 2014, when he was suspended by President Goodluck Jonathan after raising the alarm on the $20bn alleged to be missing.

The PUNCH reports that the emir has been engaged in a battle with the governor since last year amid allegations that he supported the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Abba Kabir-Yusuf.

The monarch has since been under investigation for alleged corruption while his emirate was split into five to whittle down his influence.

Details later…

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https://punchng.com/breaking-kano-dethrones-emir-sanusi/


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[Julius Eto]

Outspoken monarchs and other non-government people face danger from APC and PDP at all levels in Nigeria because the twin parties have skeletons in their cupboards.

The inept PDP government of Jonathan dealt harshly with Sanusi.

Now, the incompetent APC government that Sanusi helped to power is repaying him with a bad coin.

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[Okechukwu Ukaga]

While this is obviously a sad development, it may very well be a blessing in disguise for Sanusi as it liberates him to fully utilize his abilities and experience beyond the confines of traditional royal responsibilities. 

OU

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[Chikwendu Ukaegbu]

            Yes, this is a good thing regardless of frustrations and disappointments felt by some constituencies in Nigeria.  I have always believed that Sanusi taking the position of Emir was a waste of critical talent for Nigeria. Why should such a highly skilled and forward looking technocrat and public intellectual sit in hibernation, making speeches, and settling local disputes? I've seen many Nigerian governors of the Central Bank come and go. But Sanusi was unique in his interpretation of the Nigerian problem. Previous governors of the Central Bank focused on macroeconomic policies. Sanusi gave equal emphasis to macro and micro economics. In his very captivating speeches and press opinions on the dilemma of the Nigerian economy, he went beyond exchange rates, GDP, inflation, fiscal and monetary policies- the traditional/conventional focus of his predecessors. See his keynote speeches, TED Talks, and newspaper pieces. He gave equal, in fact more, emphasis to the importance of investing in the expansion and modernization of physical infrastructure. He constantly lamented Nigeria's fixation to importation of nearly everything and the resultant loss of employments to countries that buy Nigeria's raw materials for value-added production. He believed that Nigeria's economic lackluster could be transformed to dynamism with a forward-looking political leadership.

           A forward-looking political leadership could have easily seen the passion in Sanusi, reassigned him to form and lead a national task force on infrastructural development, given him the fund and deadline to bring about a visible transformation in Nigeria's infrastructure. Or lead a task force on industrialization. These were things he passionately cared about and articulately expressed in many national and international venues. Instead, he moved from the Central Bank to Emir-ship. Don't be surprised if his current conflict with Kano State is partly the result of his recent introspective,but well-meaning, speeches about the human condition in the North and what to do about it. Read the press release on his dethronement. That press release implied that he had stepped on tradition and culture.

           If the current dethronement sustains, Sanusi may be more useful to Nigeria if he is able to once again orient himself to public life.

C Ukaegbu

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[Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju]

superb piece, Ukaegbu but does Sanusi have an adequate grasp of his life's mission? 

i suspect not.

i see him as a man in search of a mission without knowing it 

your vocation is what inflames you, even in spite of risks it implies.

sanusi's vocation is neither CBN headship or Kano emirship, bcs these positions are dependent on the powers that be.

how can you speak truth to power while dependent on that power?

Sanusi...wake up!

you are beyond these niches into which you have been inserted. 

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[olamide quadri]

What continues to baffle me has been how folks who never knew anything about the theatrics that saw the ouster of SLS suddenly became pro-Sanusi crusaders.

Facebook statuses, and twitter and whatsapp are all graced with the image of SLS and songs of sorrow or otherwise, depending on whose side who is.

Imagine if we were this interested in the affairs of the State, we would be meticulous in putting people in power. But nooo, the level of political apathy in our society is saddening. 

We follow the multitude to decide, we follow them to cry again over the consequences of every wrong decision we make. 

Fliers all around already campaigning for SLS as president come 2023....from the same people who have been proposing a matchmake of Yemi Osinbajo and our veteran brother from Kaduna as his running mate for the same 2023 o...

News we will not read, history we will not read. But social media has empowered us to be hypocritical... It has given us the voice to cry foul at the smell of injustice. Give it some days, I bet, many Nigerians would have forgotten what happened yesterday already. As a matter of fact, beyond the wails that accompanied the ouster of the then Emir, some don't know what has happened next. 

Where is Omoyele Sowore? Do we hear anything about him yet again?

Where is  Leah Sharibu? We only hear she's now given birth in the hives of the assailants. Some even said she's a Nigerian heroin yet alive. Yes, she's! But, would you rather a daughter of one of you be made one?

Let's repent na. Haba mana!!!

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