The Kano State Government has dismissed reports that the reinstatement of Muhammadu Sanusi II as the 16th Emir of Kano was nullified in the ruling of the Abuja Division of Court of Appeal delivered on Friday.
Kano Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General, Barrister Haruna Isa Dederi, said this in a chat with journalists.
According to him, the Court of Appeal had in judgment on January 10, 2025 affirmed the power of Kano State to reinstate Sanusi.
The Commissioner said only the Supreme Court has the power to overturn that decision.
Therefore, the Commissioner said the ruling of Court of Appeal on Friday did not overturn the January 10 judgment, but just a hold on its execution pending the Supreme Court’s ruling.
The Commissioner noted that the January 10 judgment set aside an earlier Federal High Court decision that nullified Sanusi’s reinstatement as it affirmed that the lower court lacked jurisdiction over the emirate matter.
“It doesn’t mean that the judgment delivered on January 10, 2025, has been quashed. That judgment is still standing and subsisting. The Court of Appeal cannot reverse its own decision; only the Supreme Court has the power to set it aside,” Dederi stated.
