One of Nigeria’s most prominent traditional rulers, Alhaji Ado Abdullahi Bayero, the Emir of Kano has died.
The late Emir was aged 83. He be became the Emir of Kano in 1963 at the age of 33.
The late emir will be buried today in Kano according to Islamic rites.
Alhaji Ado Bayero was born on July 25, 1930, and was the emir Emir of Kano a position he held from 1963 to his death .He ascended the throne when Muhammadu Sanusi, his half brother was dethroned and Inuwa who succeeded him reigned for only three months.
Ado Bayero’s reign remains one of the longest in the history of the Kano Emirate.
He had earlier worked as a bank clerk for the British Bank of West Africa after which he won a seat in the Northern Regional House of Assembly in 1954. He also joined the Kano Native Police Authority which he headed till 1962.
He was a former Ambassador of Nigeria to Senegal and was the son of Abdullahi Bayero dan Muhammad Abbas. Ado Bayero was the 13th Fulani emir since the Fulani War of Usman dan Fodio, when the Fulani took over the Hausa city-states. He was one of the strongest and powerful emirs in the history of the Hausa land. He was renowned for his abundant wealth, maintained by means of stock market investments and large-scale agricultural entrepreneurship both at home and abroad
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