Senator Rabi’u Kwanwaso , lawmaker representing Kano Central Senatorial District, has condemned  a plan by the state government to create four additional emirates from the present Kano Emirate.

The Kano State House of Assembly at the plenary on Monday began a move to create four emirates following a petition by one Mallam Ibrahim Salisu.

According to reports  on Tuesday they are  move and an investigation of some aides of the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi II, were aimed at whittling down the powers of the monrch and ultimately depose him.

Although the state government denied the allegations, Kwankwaso, who spoke through his media aide, Binta Spikin, in a telephone conversation on Tuesday, criticised the plan by the Kano State Government to split the emirate into four.

The Senator said, only the people of the state, through the state House of Assembly, could demand such.

While noting that the move could only be made where issues of public concern had been raised against the current structure of the council.

She said, “On the emirate, he (Kwankwaso) does not support the splitting of Kano Emirate it is the heritage of the Kano people. If there should be such a move to split the emirate, the senator is of the opinion that it should come from the people; the people should be the ones who should complain about anything, then the state House of Assembly could take action.

“But, this one is from nowhere in particular because the same people who submitted a petition to the House could not really be identified. Who are those people? They don’t form a fraction of Kano, so they cannot on any grounds speak for the whole of Kano State,” he stated.