New Emir of Kano to emerge Sunday

Semiu Salami
Semiu Salami
Gov. Rabi’u Kwankwaso

Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has said that the state government will announce the name of a new Emir of Kano on Sunday.

The governor said this on Saturday after receiving the Emirate’s king makers who had submitted a list containing four names to Kwankwaso who is to give final approval according to tradition, at the Government House, Kano.

The king makers who visited the governor are the Madakin Kano, Yusuf Chigari and the Sarkin Dawaki, Bello Abubakar.

Other king makers are the Makaman Kano, Abdullahi Ibrahim and Sarkin Bai, Mukhtar Adnan.

It will be recalled that the late Emir Ado Bayero was named the successor a day after the death of his father, Abdullahi Bayero.

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