Aminu Ado Bayero yesterday became the new Emir of Kano after Muhammad Sanusi II, the immediate past Emir, was dethroned.
Muhammad Sanusi II was said to have been dethroned over what the state government described as disrespect of lawful instructions from Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State and other lawful authorities.
The dethronement of the Emir followed the decision of the State Council Executive, SEC, meeting presided over by the governor.
The announcement was made by the Secretary to the State Government, Usman Alhaji a few hours after the removal of Muhammadu Sanusi II.
The appointment takes immediate effect according to the SSG.
Usman Alhaji said the removal was in line with the recommendation of the Kano State Public Complaint and Anti-Corruption Commission which summoned the emir. The commission had asked the traditional ruler to respond to a petition accusing him of selling lands belonging to the Kano Emirate to the tune of N2 billion.
Sanusi had, however, secured a restriction order from a court to stop the commission from investigating him.
Aminu Ado Bayero, son of a former emir of Kano was on Monday, March 9th, 2020, announced as the new emir of Kano.
Aminu, a Mass Communication graduate of Bayero University, Kano, was first appointed as district head of Nasarawa in 1990 by his late father. He was named the emir of Bichi in 2019 after Kano State governor Umaru Ganduje divided the Kano Emirate into four.
Before being named the emir of Bichi, Ado Bayero was named district head of Nassarawa and Dan Maje Kano in 1990 by his late father Ado Bayero.
He was later promoted to Dan Buran Kano and then named Turakin Kano.
Ado Bayero was also Sarkin Dawakin Sakarin Gida Kano before elevated to Wamban Kano and then named emir of Bichi.
However, Sanusi would be remembered for his contributions to the nation’s economy as a successful banker and economist. He was formerly the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. His nomination for the position came on the 1st of June, 2009. Sanusi is popular for saying he never lobbied for the job and that he never even knew President Yar’adua when he nominated him.
The Nigerian Senate confirmed his nomination on the 3rd of June after grilling him for three hours, some top bankers in the country made spirited moves to block his confirmation, he was already at loggerheads with the Chief Executive Officer of the Intercontinental Bank Plc, Erastus Akingbola over the de-marketing of the bank.
On the 9th of June, 2009, he was appointed the 10th Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria by the late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua, coming at a time when the nation was caught in the middle of lingering global economic crisis worsened by sharp drop in oil prices. Sanusi was believed to come on board with fresh strategies to salvage the economy. But Sanusi had barely settled in at the Marble House as the CBN Governor than he started going ballistic. In a tone that could be translated to mean a criticism of the Yar’adua’s Seven Point Agenda, he said: ‘My view is that until we address the infrastructural problem in this country, we will not even begin to solve our problems. As a matter of fact, my view is that in the seven-point agenda, if we could just focus on two or three things and finish them up in the next four years, we will be far more effective in contributing to this country than focused on seven.’
As the CBN governor, he launched a radical move to save the country’s major banks from what he referred to as an impending collapse. In August 2009, his ‘rescue’ of major commercial banks in the country (Afribank, Union Bank, Oceanic Bank, Finbank and Intercontinental Bank), involved injecting the sum of N400 billion naira to these banks as bailout funds. Sanusi did not just stop at injecting these funds, he also went ahead to fire the chief executive officers of these banks.
