Emir Sanusi Deserves Apology for Dethronement – PDP BOT Chair

Chairman Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Walid Jibrin, has reacted to the dethronement of Kano Emir Muhammad Sanusi II.

He said the deposed Emir deserves apology for the way and manner he was treated.

He called on the National Assembly to provide strong procedures of removing monarchs and give them official roles because politics is fastly ruining the highly respected traditional institutions.

Senator Jibrin, who is also the Sarkin Fulani Nasarawa, therefore called on traditional title holders to participate in politics to protect the highly respected institution.

The BoT Chairman, in a statement, lamented current traditional rulers are used as fire brigade to solve conflicts.

He stressed that even colonial masters could not have succeeded without the full involvement of traditional rulers.

According to him: “Politics in Nigeria is fastly ruining the highly respected traditional institutions in Nigeria. It is very unfortunate that our current traditional rulers are only used as fire brigade to solve conflicts.

“As a traditional title holder myself, my primary aim of joining politics is to protect the integrity of traditional institutions. In Nigeria, many governors involve Traditional title holders to assist them in running the government. Past governments could not have succeeded without bringing in some traditional title holders to assist them in running their governments.”

The Sarkin Fulani expressed worries over the dethronement of the Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II.

According to him: “What happened in Kano recently where the Governor within two hours only, dethroned the First Class Emir and banished him to far away Nasarawa State is very disturbing.

“Emir Sanusi the traditional ruler of highly respected traditional stool of Kano should not have been treated like a rat is being pursued. The people of Kano and Sanusi family demand an apology”.