{"id":192936,"date":"2020-02-11T18:11:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T17:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=192936"},"modified":"2020-02-11T18:12:02","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T17:12:02","slug":"ganduje-vs-emir-sanusi-northern-elders-decry-president-buharis-refusal-to-reconcile-kano-sons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=192936","title":{"rendered":"Ganduje vs Emir Sanusi: Northern Elders decry President Buhari&#8217;s refusal to reconcile Kano sons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has described as condemnable President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s refusal to reconcile Governor Abdullahi Ganduje and Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi.<\/p>\n<p>The elders say Buhari\u2019s refusal to reconcile the differences between Ganduje and Emir Sanusi was \u201cunfortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ganduje and Emir Sanusi had been involved in a face-off, following the creation of more Emirate councils in Kano State.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed in certain quarters that Ganduje created the Emirates to reduce the influence of Emir Sanusi in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the face-off between the two illustrious sons of Kano State, Buhari had refused to intervene in the situation, citing constitutional limitations.<\/p>\n<p>However, NEF\u2019s spokesperson, Dr. Hakeem Baba Ahmed\u2019s alleged remarks that his interference in such disagreement had a constitutional limitation, was not reliable.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Hausa Service, Ahmed said, \u201cWe as elders from the North were the first to be in Kano so as to find ways of resolving the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we were there, we suddenly heard that the President had set up his committee on the matter. We had gone far in this matter, but to our knowledge, the President\u2019s committee had not started work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked if Northern elders will attempt to prevail on the President to reconcile both Kano illustrious sons, Ahmed said: \u201cHe said he would not talk over the matter citing the constitution.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has described as condemnable President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s refusal to reconcile Governor Abdullahi Ganduje and Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi. The elders say Buhari\u2019s refusal to reconcile the differences between Ganduje and Emir Sanusi was \u201cunfortunate.\u201d Ganduje and Emir Sanusi had been involved in a face-off, following the creation of more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[2658,1223,1227],"class_list":["post-192936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-a","tag-nef","tag-northern-elders-forum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/192937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}