Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, has said the dethroned emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi, was not fit for the royal stool.
Ganduje stated this in Abuja while speaking during during the presentation of “Dear President Goodluck Jonathan (An Open Letter),” written by a former managing editor of the Daily Times Newspaper, Bonaventure Melah.
He claimed that Sanusi was installed as the Kano emir just to spite former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Recall that Jonathan had suspended Sanusi as the Central Bank of Nigeria governor after he alleged that $20 billion oil revenue could not be accounted for.
But Ganduje, in his speech at the book launch, said Sanusi shouldn’t have spoken publicly about the missing money.
The Kano governor said, “You could have given him (Jonathan) this clue and then he would know how to investigate even before those who had stolen the money would find a way of hiding the money. That statement, I said in my mind was not honourable. That statement created bad blood.
“Sanusi was appointed Emir of Kano not because he was the best man for the throne but to retaliate what Jonathan did to him.
“That was in order to prove that what Jonathan did to him was wrong and that the people of Kano wanted their son as Emir and therefore they decided to appoint him as Emir.”
Former Kano State governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, had appointed Sanusi as emir in 2014.
But Kwankwaso’s successor, Ganduje, dethroned him in March 2020.
According to Ganduje, “When I became governor, I said yes, the Jonathan medicine is an important medicine. That medicine, even though I am not a medical doctor, but that medicine would serve the same purpose, for the same disease and for the same patient.
“So, I took my Jonathan medicine and decided to save the system, to save the institution and I applied it effectively. So Jonathan and I are on the same page. Actually, I have no regrets.”
