The ongoing tussle to create new emirates under Zazzau emirate by the El-Rufai led government has reached a crossroad as documents containing an out of court settlement between Kaduna State Government, under the leadership of Ex-governor Arc. Namadi Sambo and Zazzau Emirate, under the leadership of the late Emir of Zazzau, (Dr.) Alhaji Shehu Idris, CFR dated 15th April 2008 have emerged.
The documents which stated inter alia “for the avoidance of doubt, agreed that Zazzau Emirate shall remain as it is after the creation of the aforementioned Chiefdoms and no further Emirate, Chiefdoms or any traditional institution of whatever description, nature or name be created from Zazzau Emirate “.
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The above agreement, which was backed by an order of the High Court of Justice of Kaduna State, dated 28th January 2009, ratified the agreement between the two parties.
It states as follows: “It is hereby ordered that the terms of settlement agreed to by the Emir of Zazzau and the Executive Governor of Kaduna State dated 15th April 2008 and filed in the Court on 23rd May 2008, is entered as a final judgement of this Court between the parties in this suit”
The above judgement of the High Court of Justice of Kaduna State still subsists, as it has not been appealed for over 10 years.
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