- By Kamil Opeyemi
As Judge Says Evicting Bayero From Palace is a Rent Tribunal Matter
A Kano State High Court on Monday restrained the deposed Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero, from parading himself as an Emir.
The court also issued similar orders to four other Emirs who were deposed by virtue of the proclamation of the House of Assembly which nullified the law that made them to be Emirs.
Other deposed Emirs affected by the orders are Emirs, of Bichi, Rano, Gaya, and Karaye.
elivering the judgment, Monday, the Court further restrained the 15th Emir of Kano and four other Emirs, themselves, servants, privies and any other persons appointed by them from parading themselves as Emirs of Kano, Bichi, Gaya, Rano, Karaye.
The Kano State government had filed a case asking the State High to stop the 15th Emir of Aminu Ado Bayero and four other Emirs of Karaye, Bichi, Rano and Gaya from parading themselves as Emirs.
The Government also gave the Deposed Emirs 48 hours within which to vacate their respective Palaces after being deposed.
The Presiding Judge, Justice Amina Adamu Aliyu, however said the issue of evicting the Deposed Emir, Aminu Ado Bayero from his Nassarawa palace is a Rent Tribunal matter and should not be before her court.
In her judgement, the judge directed the Deposed Emir, Aminu Ado Bayero and four others to quickly hand over all the Emirate Traditional Royal Artifacts to the government and the substantive Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi ii.
Justice Amina Adamu Aliyu, also said the State Assembly Emirate Council Repealed Law 2024, was done according to the law as enshrined in section 4 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
She then ruled that the State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf’s assent to the law is also done perfectly according to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.