With a hasty dismissal of Abdullahi Umar Ganduje and Emir Sanusi
Lamido Sanusi as victims of self-induced embroilment in a power tussle, we are
denied vital lessons for national development. Again, there is the cynicism
that Ganduje who is allegedly steeped in corruption, fecklessness and vendetta
lacks the altruism that should underpin his dismantling of the Sanusi monarchy.
But until Sanusi secures judicial validation, his royal influence remains vitiated
as his centuries-old Kano emirate is split into five.
We must appropriate the development in Kano
State as an opportunity to assess once again the relevance of the traditional
institution to contemporary existence. In Nigeria, like some other parts of the
world, communities at inchoate stages of development where they lacked defined
institutions for cohesion might have had a need for traditional rulers. But
with the development of great institutions for self-regulation, Nigeria does
not need the traditional institution.
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| *Gov Ganduje and Emir Sanusi |
