Apparently to douse the strain created by the dissolution of 4 Emirates in Kano State and the reinstatement of Muhammadu Sanusi II because the sixteenth Emir of Kano, Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf, on Thursday, held a closed-door assembly with the Nationwide Safety Adviser (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, in Abuja.
The governor, who took to his social media handles to disclose the event, nonetheless, didn’t present the small print of the assembly.
LEADERSHIP stories that Kano State is at present on the sting following the repeal of the State’s Emirates Regulation of 2019 and enactment of Kano Emirate Regulation 2024 by the State Home of Meeting, on Thursday final week, a improvement that has led to an unprecedented state of affairs in Kano Emirate with two individuals laying declare to its throne concurrently.
Two days after the reinstatement of Sanusi II and deposition of HRH Aminu Ado Bayero because the fifteenth Emir of Kano, the latter returned to Kano on Saturday morning and took over the mini palace in Nasarawa space of town. The motion angered the state authorities, which thereafter ordered the State Police Command to arrest Bayero for trying to trigger chaos within the Emirate.
LEADERSHIP stories that the State authorities, talking by way of the Deputy Governor, Aminu Abdulsalam, had publicly accused NSA Ribadu of plotting the return of Bayero to town utilizing the instrumentality of his workplace and the navy.
However, Ribadu’s workplace swiftly denied the allegations, threatening authorized motion until Abdulsalam retracted his assertion. Abdulsalam subsequently withdrew his accusations and ultimately apologised to the NSA.
Nevertheless, the governor’s go to to the NSA in Abuja was not sudden, significantly to fix fences.
Governor Yusuf wrote: “I had a fruitful engagement with the Nationwide Safety Adviser, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, this afternoon in Abuja.”