Men of the Kano State Police Command have reportedly stormed the emir’s palace in Kano state and displaced the original guards guarding Muhammadu Sanusi, the lately reinstated emir.
According to Premium Times, the hunters who served as original guards left the palace as soon as the police officers took over the security of the structure.
This was said to be a move aimed at securing the main palace for the relocation of Aminu Bayero, the deposed 15th Emir of Kano, following a court order that faulted his dethronement.
On Thursday, a civil high court in Kano annulled all conduct of the state government repealing the Emirates Council Law of 2019.
In his ruling, Muhammad Liman, the presiding judge, said the defendants were apprehensive of an interim order preliminarily granted by the court but ignored it and enforced the law.
On May 23, the Kano house of assembly passed the amended bill, which Abba Yusuf, the governor, inked into law.
The law repealed the 2019 interpretation, which divided the Kano emirate into five authorities and was reckoned upon to dethrone Muhammadu Sanusi as emir in 2020.
On the same day the law was repealed, Sanusi was reinstated as Emir of Kano by kingmakers and the governor.
Aggrieved, Aminu Babba Dan Agundi and Sarkin Dawaki Babba of the Kano emirate approached the court to restrain the respondents from enforcing, implementing, and operationalising the law that reinstated Sanusi.
On May 23, Liman ordered the defendants to “suspend” and “not give effect to the Kano State Emirate Council (Repeal) Law, 2024, as they affect all offices and institutions of the Emirate Council created according to the provisions of the Kano State Emirate Council Law, 2019”.
The Kano police command had also said it would not misbehave with the directive of the state government on the eviction of Bayero from the Nassarawa palace which he moved into after he was replaced by Sanusi, the new emir, who moved into the main palace in Kano.
Since also, Bayero, who’s said to have the backing of some civil government officers, has been under the protection of a train of dogfaces and police officers at the Nassarawa palace.