The governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, has said that the state government would continue to recognise and emirs of Bichi, Rano, Gaya and Karaye despite a court order dissolving their creation.

This is even as protest spread across Kano metropolis against the court ruling.

A Kano High Court presided by Justice Usman Na’Abba had earlier Thursday dissolved the four additional emirates and sacked four first class emirs created by Kano State Government.

On May 8, Kano State governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, assented to a controversial law establishing four additional emirates with first class emirs in Bichi, Rano, Karaye and Gaya.

Delivering the judgement on Thursday, the court said the Kano State House of Assembly had violated the provision of Section 101 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended), thereby dissolving the emirates.

But a statement by the state commissioner for Information, Mohammed Garba, said the state government would not concede to the judgement in the “interest of the wellbeing of the people” of the state. “Kano State Government says it is studying the ruling of Kano High Court on the creation of four new Emirates in the state with a view to taking immediate appropriate action,” Mr Garba said.

The state government regretted that despite the constitutional power and authority conferred on the State Assembly on “such progressive and important issue”, the court rules otherwise.

“The Government will not fold its arms and concedes such constitutional power in the interest of the wellbeing of the people and general development of the state.

“Despite the ruling, the government still recognizes them as First Class Emirs and will continue dealing with them as such.

“The state government therefore advised people to be calm, law abiding and await further action,” he added.

Meanwhile, residents in some Kano communities have taken to streets to protest the Thursday’s ruling by the state High Court nullifying the four newly created emirates by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje.

Recall that on May 8, Mr Ganduje assented to a controversial law establishing four additional emirates with first-class emirs in Bichi, Rano, Karaye and Gaya.

According to a report by the Premium Times, the protest is going on at the four new emirates. In Karaye, one of the newly created emirates, the residents carried placards showing their grievances at the judgment.

“Leave us in our new emirate, the Karaye emirate,” one of the placards reads.

Another placard reads: “The people of Karaye are in support of the new emirate.” According to the newspaper, a similar protest is ongoing in Gaya Emirate.