Adapted from a write-up by Adnan Bawa Bello.
The 1st ever Sarki, (Emir) recorded to have been deposed/dethroned in Kano was Guguwa Dan Gijimasu (1247-1290). The 2nd Sarki reported to have been deposed/dethroned was Dakauta Dan Abdullahi Baja in 1452. He was said to have ruled in Kano for just 1 day.
Sarki Atuma Dan Dakauta who succeeded his father, was the 3rd on the list of deposed/dethroned Sarkis in Kano. Dakauta ruled Kano for only 7days in the year 1452. Sarki Yakubu Dan Kisoke was dethroned in 1565 after ruling kano for 4 months and 29 days . He was reinstated but decline the offer and lived in a place which was later called Yakufawa.
Two of his sons Shashiri and Dauda Abasama became Sarkis of Kano in later years. Dauda Abasama shared the same experience with his father in 1565 as he was removed after ruling kano for only 50 days . He lived in a village called Kwarmashe after he was deposed.The pious Sarki Abubarkar Kado Dan Rumfa (1565-1573) was dethroned after he ruled kano for 8.5 years. Sarki Alhaji Dan Kutumbi (1648-1649) was deposed and settled at Dan-Zaki village in Gezawa.
Sarki Kukuna Dan Alhaji (1651-1652) ruled for 1 year and was deposed. He was reinstated after 3 months and there after ruled Kano for another 8 years and 7 months. Sarki Soyaki Dan Shekarau ruled for only 3 months and was sacked in 1652 and there after lived in Dakurawa.
After the dethronement in 1652, there was a relief of removal of Sarkis in Kano for 250 years until 1903 when Sarkin Kano Alu (1893-1903) was deposed by the British, taken to Yola and later Lokoja where he died in the 1920s.
The Ag Sarki of Kano Waziri Allah bar Sarki was removed in 1909 by Mr. Temple, the British residential officer in Kano. In 1963 Sarkin Kano Sanusi I (1953-1963) was deposed after he was indicted for financial misappropriation by the Muffet Committee of Enquiry.
He was taken to Azare and later relocated to wudil where the died in 1991. Sarkin Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II was deposed by Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje on 9th March 2020 and taken to Loko in Nasarawa state.
The Kano state house of assembly has passed Kano emirates council law (repeal bill) 2024.
The law has abrogated establishment of 5 new Emirates in the state. All offices established under the repealed law have been set aside.
Would Sanusi II be reinstated and decline the offer as done by Sarki Yakubu Dan Kisoke from the Bagauda ruling house?
Would he be reinstated and commence a second tenure like Sarki Kukuna Dan Alhaji also from the Bagauda lineage?
Or would he never test such power again like his grandfather Sarki Sanusi I ? Only time would provide answers to these questions.
Sources: Kano Chronicle, Kano Daga Dutsen Dala of Dr. Uba Adamu, Tsarin Mussulunci a kasar Hausa of Jamilu Fagge, Confidential Report of Muffet Committee of Enquiry and so on.
