The Presidency has raised a four-man committee to broker peace between Governor Abdullahi Ganduje and the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi both of whom have been locked in a cold war.
The governor and the emir were invited to Abuja on Friday for talks which sources said on Saturday may halt the deposition processes already initiated by the Kano State Government.
The peace team is headed by Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State.
Other members of the committee are Governors Abubakar Sani Bello (Niger), Abubakar Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi) and Muhammad Badaru Abubakar (Jigawa).
The Office of the Chief of Staff to the President is coordinating the activities of the committee, The Nation learnt last night.
But the team may have to harmonize its report with that of a similar intervention committee put together by a business mogul, Aliko Dangote.
A top source said: “Let me say to you that the presidency had intervened when the state government wanted to remove the Emir about a year ago.
“When this investigation and deposition processes were initiated about a year ago, the governor informed the presidency. The four-man committee was sent by the government to prevail on Ganduje to drop the idea.
“He was persuaded to drop the idea while other issues were being looked at for reconciliation.
“But when the governor revived the processes this time around, he did not inform the presidency. The same committee was however sent but Ganduje refused to be seen until the parliament had passed the law creating more Emirates in the state.
“This time around that he wanted to do it, the presidency was not informed because he did not want to be stopped. When he went ahead and signed the order, there was a court order stopping the governor. But he said he did not get the order.”
Another source said the presidency opted to intervene because of the “grave security implications” of a breakdown of law and order in the state.
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