Dethroned Emir Sanusi En Route Lagos – El-Rufai

The dethroned Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi, is heading to Lagos from Abuja after a federal high court in Abuja ordered his release, according to his friend and governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai.

Sanusi had expressed his desire to be relocated to Lagos to the Kano State government after he was dethroned, but was instead banished initially to Loko, and later to Awe in Nasarawa State.

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El-Rufai had visited Sanusi in Awe as a mark of solidarity, a statement signed by Muyiwa Adekeye, the governor’s Special Adviser on Media and Communication said.

According to the statement, the governor, who drove from Abuja to Awe town, “met Sanusi in high spirits, demonstrating his usual calm, poise, and regal-bearing” despite his removal four days ago.

“His Highness seems to have taken all that happened in his stride but reiterated his commitment to enforcing his fundamental human rights,” he added.

The statement said Sanusi and El-Rufai attended Friday prayers together in Awe, where the former Emir led the Jumma’at prayers, adding that “hundreds of well-wishers lined up the road of Awe to hail His Highness on his way to the Mosque and back to his residence.”

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The statement said further that Sanusi rode in Governor El Rufai’s car to Abuja, from where the former emir would proceed to Lagos.

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