Serious Tension In Kano Over Rumors President Jonathan Has Reversed Sanusi’s Appointment As Emir

The atmosphere in the ancient city of Kano on Wednesday is tensed. The story spreading in the town is that the new Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, is about to be arrested and detained on the orders from above as the President, Goodluck Jonathan, has decided to reverse Sanusi's appointment immediately.

The few indigenes of Kano, who are angry by Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso's decision to pick Sanusi among the three men presented to him by the King Makers, are said to be jubilating the news spreading across the state that Jonathan had finalized plans to remove Emir Sanusi and detain him...

The immediate past Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and now Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamiso Sanusi is a political foe of President Jonathan. The two men disagreed over whether billions of dollars in oil money had been stolen by people working for Jonathan in Abuja. Jonathan suspended Sanusi from the CBN after the nation's banker accused officials of the NNPC and the Ministry of Petroleum of failing to deposit oil revenues worth more than $20 billion in the Central Bank as required by the law of Nigeria.

A source close to Gov Kwankwaso told Sahara Reporters that the Presidency is being those orchestrating the fake news about the removal of Emir Sanusi from the throne.

"This whole rumor was calculated to cause a new set of rioting in Kano," said the source. He said Jonathan and his cronies had designed a plot to create destabilization in Kano in order to give a pretext to declare a state of emergency in Kano in the high populated state under the control of APC.

President Jonathan has yet to congratulate Mr. Sanusi on his appointment as the new emir.