Without speaking tongue-in-cheek, Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, on Friday, declared that he dethroned Sanusi Muhammed Sanusi as the Emir of Kano because he was talking too much.
He said the deposed Emir could not draw a line between his office ad the head of a very powerful traditional institution such as the royalty of Kano and his pedagogical disposition as a social critic.
He stated that because Sanusi did not understand the responsibilities of a traditional ruler, he had to be removed to preserve the majesty of the revered seat.
Sanusi was dethroned in March 2020 by the state government, six years after ascending the throne.
Speaking on Channels Television’s “Politics Today” on Friday, Ganduje said Sanusi was ruled by his unbridled tongue.
He said the unfortunately for him, he continued to be a social critic instead of assuming the role of a traditional ruler.
Read Ganduje’s response to a question that bordered on the issue: “The real story was that the deposed emir of Kano did not understand the responsibilities of a traditional ruler especially for a strong institution like that of Kano.
“The emir of Kano was a social critic, a celebrated social critic and there was nothing wrong with that because he is an educated person; there is freedom of speech.”
Ganduje explained that when he was deputy to former governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, Sanusi was an executive director in a bank.
According to him: “He (Sanusi) made a statement that instead of providing water in the state, we were building a house in Abuja – the governor’s lodge in Asokoro.
“I remember my governor said either the bank sacks him or we should withdraw our accounts from the bank and the bank did not sack him; so we withdrew N969m from that bank. That was the work of a social critic.”
Ganduje said that when Sanusi became the emir of Kano, he refused to fit into the status of a traditional ruler.
“He is an economist but he failed to understand (that) in economics, you have to inherit assets and liabilities.
“But he only inherited the assets of a traditional institution by giving orders, staying in a mansion, dressing gorgeously, being addressed as a king, but (not) the liability of that institution. You have to watch your words. You have to watch your tongue, but he didn’t do that.
“That was the problem. That was the biggest problem; that he could not change his mode of life from social critic to (leader of) an institution.”
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