The was a bid of disagreement between President Goodluck Jonathan and the Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, following unscrupulouse pride by the the governor of central Bank,

The was a bid of disagreement
between President Goodluck Jonathan and 
the Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II,  following unscrupulouse pride by the the governor of central Bank, for which his passport was seize from him. The cease passport had prevented the Emir from going be young boarders. The
State Security Services has returned to the
Emir his travelling documents seized from him on
May 3 at the height of his disagreement with the
President.
Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi meets President
Goodluck Jonathan for a Ramadan Breakfast
The Senior Special Assistant to Governor Rabiu
Kwankwaso on Chieftaincy and Emirate Council
Affairs, Tijjani Mailafiya, told journalists the SSS
returned the Emir’s passport through the director
in charge of its Kano state command, Bassey
Itang.
Mr. Mailafiya commended the Federal Government
for releasing the passport six months after it was
seized at the Aminu Kano International Airport in
Kano as the Emir made to board a Turkish airline
flight for a planned trip to Saudi Arabia for lesser
hajj.
He said with his passport now in his possession,
the Emir was now better placed to serve his people
locally and abroad, when necessary.
The SSS had confiscated the Emir’s travelling
documents as he made to board the May 3 11:
10p.m. Turkish Airlines flight to Turkey where he
would have connected another flight to Saudi
Arabia.
The agency’s action was a contravention of the
April 3 judgment of a Federal High Court in Lagos,
which restrained it and the Nigeria Police from
arresting or harassing the then CBN Governor or
seizing his passport.
Mr. Sanusi had sued after the SSS seized his
passport on February 20 shortly after he arrived
Lagos from Niger, where he had gone to attend a
meeting of governors of central banks in the West
African sub-region. He had then been suspended
from office in absentia.
Shortly after his plane landed at the Executive Jet
Terminal of the Murtala Muhammed International
Airport in Lagos, he was accosted by SSS
operatives who detained him briefly and insisted he
must surrender his passport.
Speaking on the release of the passport Saturday,
Mr. Mailafiya thanked the Kano state government
for being in the vanguard of those who pressed for
the release of the document.
Some Nigerians may however see the handing
over of the document as President Goodluck
Jonathan’s direct gesture of saying everything is
now alright between him and the Kano Emirate
Council.
After nearly a year of bitter relations, President
Jonathan and the Emir met on October 30 in Abuja
and reconciled differences that once drove both
men to the extremes of their offices.
Sanusi, a former governor of the Central Bank of
Nigeria, was fired by the president on February 20
after accusing the government of diverting $20
billion oil revenues.
The government denied the claim, and in turn,
accused Mr. Sanusi of “financial recklessness”.
After leaving office, Mr. Sanusi was appointed the
Emir of Kano in June, assuming one of the most
powerful traditional stools in Nigeria.
His appointment by Kano State’s Governor Rabiu
Kwankwaso, a member opposition All Progressives
Congress, was opposed by the presidency which
ordered the emir’s office blockaded for days.
The emir reportedly initiated peace moves, and the
two men met for the first time in July during the
breaking of the Muslim fast, a yearly routine in
which the president meets top government officials
who are Muslims and other prominent Islamic
leaders in the country.
Our sources say the October 30 meeting sealed
the reconciliation moves between the two sides.
The emir was accompanied to the meeting by all
senior members of the Kano Emirate council, while
Vice President Namadi Sambo, the National
Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, Attorney General,
Mohammed Adoke, and the Foreign Affairs
Minister, Aminu Wali also attended the meeting.
PREMIUM TIMES learnt that days after the
meeting, the President asked the SSS to release
the Emir’s passport as a further proof that he had
buried the hatchet and was now ready for a warm
relationship with the traditional ruler and his
emirate