A call has gone to lawmakers in the Houses of Assembly throughout Nigeria to repeal dethronement clauses in the laws of their respective states. According to the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) which made the call, this will make it impossible for governors to depose traditional rulers.
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Contrary to allegations of collusion to remove former Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, from office, the Presidency had intervened at many stages of the conflict to avoid escalation in the last two years.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sent “an urgent complaint to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention over the arbitrary detention and degrading treatment of deposed Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi (II), [Sanusi Lamido Sanusi].”
A former Governor of Kano State, Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of being responsible for the dethronement of the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II.