The Kano State High Court 17, led by Justice Amina Adamu Aliyu, has issued a permanent injunction restraining Aminu Ado Bayero and four other dethroned Emirs from Bichi, Rano, Gaya, and Karaye from presenting themselves as Emirs.
In her judgement on Monday, Justice Aliyu ordered the 15th Emir of Kano, Bayero, and the Emirs of Bichi, Gaya, Rano, and Karaye, along with their servants and affiliates, to stop presenting themselves as Emirs.
The Kano State government had filed the case, seeking the court’s intervention to prevent Bayero and the other Emirs from assuming the role of traditional rulers. The government also gave the deposed Emirs 48 hours to vacate their respective palaces following their removal from office.
Justice Aliyu clarified that evicting the deposed Emir, Aminu Ado Bayero, from his Nassarawa palace is within the jurisdiction of a Rent Tribunal and not her court. However, she instructed Bayero and the other deposed Emirs to surrender all traditional royal artefacts to the government and to the substantive Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II.
Justice Aliyu also confirmed that the State Assembly’s Emirate Council Repealed Law 2024 was enacted by Section 4 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. She further affirmed that the State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, lawfully assented to the legislation.
