A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has urged Kano state governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, and the state lawmakers to handle with care the allegations levelled against the Emir of Kano, HRH Muhammad Sanusi II.
Frank, who reacted in a
statement issued on Friday in Abuja, urged Governor Ganduje to overlook
some of the perceived excesses of the royal father who he described as a
kind of “new generation Emir.”
He also appealed to the Sultan
of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa'ad Abubakar, other traditional leaders in the
country, Northern Governors Forum and other elders in the region to
intervene and settle the matter amicably.
Frank specifically begged the
governor and other top state government functionaries not to promote any
move that will lead to the dethronement of the popular Emir, adding
that such could become a bad precedence against traditional institutions
in the state and the country at large.
He said: “I will call on our
traditional fathers to quickly intervene now before this controversy
between the state government and the Kano Emirate degenerate into
unexpected.
“While I want to make a
passionate appeal to our dear Governor Ganduje and the state lawmakers
not to exercise their full strength against whatever perceived wrong
doings by Malam Sanusi led Emirate in Kano, I believe like other opinion
leaders have said that there should be a way to amicably settle the
differences.”
He also reminded the state
lawmakers and the governor not to forget how Sanusi spoke out the truth
during the past administration which later garnered substantial support
for the enthronement of APC government in the country.
Comrade Frank also called on
the federal government not to keep quiet but intervene to ensure peace
and tranquillity between Kano state government and Emir Sanusi-led
emirate council.
It would be recalled that the
Kano state House of Assembly had set up an eight-man committee to
investigate the allegations bordering on his purported misconduct and
alleged misappropriation of funds belonging to the Kano Emirate Council.
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