-After being roundly vilified for not doing enough to halt the deaths
caused by the scourge of meningitis by the Emir of Kano, His Royal
Highness, Sanusi Lamido II, Zamfara State governor, Abdulaziz Yari
Abubakar, has also fired back at the former, asking him to march his
words with action. -The governor, in a strongly worded statement released by his Special
Adviser on Media and Public Enlightenment, Ibrahim Dosara, accused Emir
Sanusi of hypocrisy by living a flamboyant lifestyle while struggling to
portray himself as a defender of the poor and the weak in the north.
Emir Sanusi and Gov. Yari
The governor recalled that unlike the other northern royal fathers,
who used their thrones to fight for the poor, the Emir was rather using
his position to cast aspersions on political leaders in the north,
particularly governors, and asked him to respect his sacred position and
stop further denigration of others.
Yari said, “Over time, we know our traditional fathers for their
compassion. When their friends from far and near offer to assist them,
they would rather the assistance was given to their people in cash or
kind. But for a traditional ruler who identifies the problems of his
people and utters these words: ‘We are in denial. The north-east and
the north-west Nigeria are among the poorest parts of the world,’ and
then when his friends bring help to his door steps, he asks for a Rolls
Royce, there is a fundamental problem.
“Governor Yari maintains that his reverence for the institution that
HRH Muhammadu Sanusi II represents is also unshaken. Hon Abdulaziz Yari
Abubakar is only asking HRH to either practise what he preaches or
forever keep his peace.
“This is because in a situation where epidemics are taking our
children, maternal mortality, uneducated youth, social vices and
incompetent leaders are the national scourge, to borrow the words of the
emir and when he is offered assistance in the face of all these and
palpable poverty, he asks for a Rolls Royce does not show him as one
fighting for the poor.
“It is time for the traditional institutions and our Royal Fathers to
call Emir Sanusi Lamido to order, he should be made to understand the
value of that exalted royal seat he is occupying. Kano kingdom is an
important kingdom amongst the kingdoms in Africa.
“It is also an important and strategic institution in the history of
Nigeria. The occupants of the seat before him played significant role in
making Nigeria what it is today.
“They respected themselves and the institution, so much that even the Queen of England celebrated and respected them.
“His irrational thinking and actions are contradictory to the values
of the kingdom and tantamount to ridiculing the institution,” the
governor said.
Emir Sanusi and Gov. Yari
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