Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II: A Reformer or Palace Jester?

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Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II

By Yusuf Abubakar

The incessant, unrestrained, no-holds-barred public commentaries that are becoming some sort of trademark of the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, are nothing short of an ill affliction. However, unlike in illnesses where a physician is required to cure one, in this affliction it’s self-cure that is needed.

The series of open attacks and public rebuke that the emir chooses to throw at every opportunity of grabbing a mic is by all good intents condemnable. The needless feather ruffling has risen from comments on the federal government’s economic policies, the urging of women to return slaps from their husbands, to the recent and unfortunate public flaying of his governor.

A lot of us welcomed the appointment of Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, as he then was, onto the exalted throne of his forefathers. We saw it as…

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