By Abbas Bamalli
Wudil indigenes in Kano State have appealed to the State House of Assembly and the government to revisit the recent creation of Gaya Emirate Council under which they have been grouped.
Alhaji Yawale Muhammad-Idris, spokesman of the indigenes said they would rather have a Wudil Emirate than be subjugated to Gaya Emirate Council, one of the four emirates created by law.
In the alternative, Muhammad-Idris asked the government to return them to Kano Emirate Council, where he said the people rightly belonged.
He made the call after a stakeholders’ meeting on Sunday in Wudil, headquarters of Wudil Local Government Area (LGA) of the state.
According to him, the current arrangement is not backed by historical antecedents and is of no benefit to the affected communities.
He said the stakeholders’ meeting was attended by various groups of indigenes of the LGA pointing out that Wudil town has a…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria