A Kano State High Court presided over by Justice Amina Alibi on Monday, permanently barred Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero from claiming to be Kano’s emir.
The court also prohibited the ousted emirs of Bichi, Rano, Gaya, and Karaye from representing themselves as emirs.
The Kano State government filed a suit against the five deposed emirs, which the judge ruled on.
The suit came when the Kano State House of Assembly repealed the Kano Emirate Law 2019 on May 23, 2024, which abolished the five emirates established by ex-Governor Umar Ganduje from the previous Kano Emirate.
On May 24, 2024, Governor Abba Yusuf signed the Kano Emirate Law 2024, restoring the 14th Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi, as the 16th Emir.
Not satisfied with the order deposing him as Emir, Bayero went to the Federal High Court in Kano and got an ex parte order preventing the governor and police from dismissing him as Emir pending the outcome of his human rights suit.
Bayern remained in the Nasarawa tiny palace once the ex parte was granted, but Sanusi moved to Kano’s Gidan Rumfa palace.
The governor’s order for the police to expel the ousted emir from the Nasarawa small palace was ignored because the police insisted on following the Federal High Court’s judgement.
The government then asked the court to prevent Bayero and other deposed emirs from posing as emirs and to require them to vacate palaces in their respective emirates.
Justice Aliyu, who delivered the judgement on Monday, barred Bayero and four other dethroned emirs from claiming the titles of Emir of Kano, Bichi, Gaya, Rano, or Karaye.
She ruled that the Kano Emirate Council Repeal Law 2024 was implemented by the state House of Assembly in accordance with the law and Section 4 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The judge also decided that Yusuf’s assent to the law was done in accordance with the Federal Republic of Nigeria’s Constitution.
However, Justice Aliyu stated that the eviction of Bayero from the Nasarawa tiny palace was a rent tribunal issue that had not been filed with the court.
She ordered Bayero and four other emirs to immediately hand up all Emirate traditional royal items to the government and the substantive emir of Kano, Sanusi II.
