The 16th Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, has stated that he will not help President Bola Tinubu’s administration to correct its policies affecting citizens. Sanusi made this declaration on Wednesday in Lagos while serving as the chairman of the 21st Anniversary of Fawehinmiism (Gani Fawehinmi Annual Lecture 2025).
While acknowledging that he could offer insights into the administration’s trajectory and the predictability of its decisions, he chose not to do so, citing a lack of amicable treatment from the government.
“I can give a few points that explain perhaps what we’re going through and how it was totally predictable, most of it, and maybe avoidable. But I am not going to do that,” he said.
Sanusi expressed that explaining the government’s policies would benefit the government, but he had no intention of assisting them because of their treatment towards him. “You know they’re my friends, but if they don’t behave like friends, I don’t behave like a friend,” he remarked, criticizing the government for lacking credible representatives to explain its actions.
He continued, “What we are going through today is, at least in part, a necessary consequence of decades of irresponsible economic management.” He emphasized that the current situation was foreseeable and warned against the path the country was on.
Sanusi, who was deposed as the 14th Emir of Kano in 2020 by then-Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, was reinstated as the 16th Emir of Kano in 2024 by the New Nigeria People’s Party-led Kano State Government. His tenure has faced challenges, including ongoing recognition of his predecessor by federal officials and tensions stirred by actions like police barricading his palace last month.
