BREAKING: Sanusi Wins As Court Finally Stops Bayero, Others From Acting As Emirs

Kano State High Court 17, under the leadership of Justice Amina Adamu Aliyu, has issued a permanent injunction barring Aminu Ado Bayero and four other deposed Emirs—formerly of Bichi, Rano, Gaya, and Karaye—from parading themselves as Emirs.

In her ruling delivered on Monday, Justice Amina Adamu Aliyu extended the injunction to prohibit the 15th Emir of Kano and the other Emirs, their associates, and anyone acting on their behalf, from assuming the titles of Emir of Kano, Bichi, Gaya, Rano, and Karaye.

The case was brought before the Kano State High Court by the state government, seeking to prevent Aminu Ado Bayero and the four other deposed Emirs from continuing to hold themselves out as Emirs.

The court also addressed the directive by the government for the deposed Emirs to vacate their respective palaces within 48 hours after their dethronement. Justice Amina Adamu Aliyu clarified that the matter of eviction from the Nassarawa palace of the deposed Emir Aminu Ado Bayero falls under the jurisdiction of a Rent Tribunal and is outside the purview of her court.

However, the Judge ordered Aminu Ado Bayero and the other deposed Emirs to promptly surrender all traditional royal artifacts of the Emirate to the state government and to the substantive Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II.

Justice Amina Adamu Aliyu affirmed that the Kano State House of Assembly’s repeal of the Emirate Council Law of 2024 was conducted in accordance with Section 4 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. She further validated the state Governor’s assent to the law as constitutionally appropriate.