Do not read political undertone to creation of four new emirates, Kano youths tell citizens

Kano youths under the aegis of Colation of 21 Groups of Youths in Kano State, have called on the people of the state to be wary of reading political inclination to the creation of additional four new Emirate councils.

The group claims that the new emirates are to enhance socio-economic and political development in the areas where the Emirates were created.

This was just as the group, however, stressed the need for state government and lawmakers to send a delegation to Sheikh Dairu Bauchi, a renown Islamic scholar who had earlier expressed his displeasure over the creation of additional four new Emirate councils.

The delegation is to brief Bauchi and let him be aware of the huge achievements the state would derive from its creation

Making the assertion on Monday, the spokesman of the group, Alhaji Kabir BBC Dala while addressing pressmen at the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) secretariat, said the group backed Governor Abdullahi Ganduje because the entire state and its citizens would benefit tremendously from it.

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The group also noted that the creation of the new Emirate councils was not meant to diminish the popularity of Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, but to make sure that the administration is decentralised, noting that there was a centralised Emirate council which was only stationed only in Kano city.

According to him, since creation of Kano State in 1960, the state has not witnessed socio-economic development in most of the areas that comprised the state, because everything was centralised at the centre (Kano) while other towns in the state were less developed, but with this creation, the zones where the new Emirate councils were created would be rapidly developed.

Dala said: “Going by the views expressed by Governor Ganduje, he has continued to maintain his commitments that everything necessary to boost development would be provided to the affected areas where the Emirate councils were sited, this would, in turn, makes Kano city less congested.

“Look at Bauchi State, there are Emir of Bauchi, Emir of Katagun, Emir of Dass and Emir of Jamare, all these Emirs were in Bauchi State, where its population was not as much as Kano State.

“If anybody visited this state, one would see various development in all the above states adding that here in Jigawa State, there were five Emirate councils, there are those of Dutse, Hadejia Kazaure, Gumel and Ringim.”