Northern elites have finally woken up on Sunday, December 22nd with a
frantic attempt to settle the feud and stop the plot to depose Emir
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as Emir of Kano. I have written an angry piece on
last week titled ‘Planned Deposition of Emir Sanusi and the Silence of
Northern Fools’ where I posited that it is foolishness of the highest
order for northern elites to be silent as Governor Ganduje destroys the
symbol of northern unity and cohesion.
Information reaching me suggests that the plot to put together a high
powered committee to address the issues came partly from the harsh tone
of that piece which I sent to key northern leaders. A high powered
delegation led by General Abdulsalami, with Gowon actig behind e scene,
have been assembled by the presidency to unite the two fighting
elephants of Sanusi and Ganduje and save the Kano Emirate from public
ridicule and mockery.
Some editors have asked me to tone down the title of the piece, and
remove the offensive word ‘fools’ and I have refused because I am no
more ready to tolerate foolishness from our leaders as the nation
sinks.. Igbos are in a quagmire today because since the 2nd tenure of
Uwechue as President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in 2011, we have
consistently taken foolish decisions that turned us into political
orphans in Nigeria held bound by a mob of separatist murderers whose
propagandist dispositions have defied the sensibilities of the
international community.
Therefore, it is foolishness for northern elutes to allow Ganduje to
depose Sanusi, and I have alluded to the reasons in the first piece.
By the way, who is Governor Ganduje that Emir Sanusi cannot criticize
him? Sanusi as emir represents northern unity and cohesion, Ganduje as
Politian represents northern corruption and impunity. Sanusi holds a
traditional title; Ganduje holds a ‘do or die’ democratic title.
While the traditional stools have held the north together, the political
stools have looted the north to the point that even some 30 year old men
are almajiris in the north.
Sanusi criticized a massively corrupt technocratic bandwagon assembled
by Jonathan, whose corrupt credentials made the west decide to remove
him as president of Nigeria in 2015.When another set of corrupt people
wanted to hold Buhari to ransom with fictitious and fraudulent exchange
rate differentials, Sanusi criticized the new emerging billionaires. The
CBN and Buhari’s men took correction.
Sanusi criticized the Boko Haram insurgents to the point that they
plotted to assassinate him at the Kao Central Mosque, leaving over 200
persons dead in the process.
Sanusi can criticize anybody, Christian or Muslim, elite or masses. Why
should Ganduje turn Sanusi to an imbecile? Tufiakwa.
The worst humiliation to the Emirate stool is the new law that when an
emir wants to travel out of the state, he sends letter to the local
government chairman, instead of the governor. Thus Emir Sanusi will have
to take permission from a houseboy local government chairman of Kano
Metropolis before he can visit the Emir of Zazzau in Zaria. Soon the law
will be extended to Sokoto and the Sultan will take permission from the
Chairman of Sokoto Local Government Area before he can attend Argungu
Festival in Kebbi Emirate jurisdiction. The Shehu of Borno will soon beg
Maiduguri Local Government Chairman before he can attend a state
function in Abuja.
Governor Ganduje has humiliated the north. He has desecrated the revered
emirate mystique of northern Nigeria. This nuisance may continue until
Almajiris turns Emirs to lap dogs. Babangida started it, Abacha joined
in 1996, Obasanjo and Aliero took it to another level in 2005. These men
are former Presidents. Now a Governor is threatening an emir as though
he is a councillor. Soon a local government chairman will depose the
Emir of Bauchi, and soon again road transport workers will banish an
Emir of Daura. Ganduje is sowing the seeds and it will germinate very
soon.
Last week I called upon President Buhari, Chief of Staff Abba Kyari and
Chief of Cousins Mamman Daura in the earlier write-up to intervene. I
thank them for their intervention together with Generals’ Gowon and
Abdulsalami, Governor Fayemi, Alhaji Adamu Fika and others who acted
behind the scene. I hope they finish the assignment and stop the
madness.
It took Governor Isa Yuguda’s boldness to banish Boko Haram from
Bauchi State while his counterpart who is visionless, embraced and
funded the terrorists in Borno State, leaving over One hundred thousand
Nigerians, including Igbos and Christians, dead and millions orphaned
and displaced. The visionless ex-governor Sheriff is enjoying his life
but the calamity be brought on Nigeria is still with us. Let this not be
repeated in Kano, in the north and in Nigeria as a whole.
The Bible said in Psalm 49 verses 20 that
‘’Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts
that perish’’.
Emirateship has given honour to the north; let them not allow Ganduje
to demystify it. We Igbos are yet to recover from the demystification of
our national space by charlatans as leaders and activists.
I am happy that the northern elites have shed foolishness, and the
Buhari backed Abdulsalami Committee will hopefully stop the north from
precedential cataclysms which the planned deposition of Emir Sanusi will
bring.
(Obinna Akukwe, church leader and activist via profetobinna2@yahoo.co,
facebook.com/obinnaakukwe, @ObinnaAkukwe )