What late Muhammad Sanusi I said of his grandson in 1963

I was commissioned by the West African magazine to interview the deposed highly respected emir. When I got there, I introduced myself as a reporter; he was very free with me. In the process of the interview, he said he was not deposed because one of his grand-children who will be more aggressive than him […]

I was commissioned by the West African magazine to interview the deposed highly respected emir. When I got there, I introduced myself as a reporter; he was very free with me. In the process of the interview, he said he was not deposed because one of his grand-children who will be more aggressive than him against dishonesty would emerge to replace him and that if care was not taken, Nigeria was going to face bad governance and that the leadership that deposed him was going to end up in disgrace.
He also said that time would come when the poor would rise against the rich if we failed to follow the path of truth.
Three years after, in 1966, I visited him at Wudil, where he relocated from Azare and he repeated the same to me saying: “Dan Jerida, you are the one who visited me in Azare and what I told you then would come to past.”
I am not surprised now that one of his grand-children, Emir Muhammed Sanusi II, has come to make the prediction a reality.
In same manner, when the late Sanusi 1 came for the Fidau prayer of Alhaji Abdulmalik Ibrahim Atta in Okene in 1969, I was then at the war front of the Nigerian civil war as a reporter, he was quartered in my residence, the house I built for my mother in Okene. My late father facilitated his accommodation because as at that time, my house was one of the best with modern facilities, I used gas to electrify the house and with a kerosene fridge and standard indoor facilities.
My late wife, Mrs Tayo Ahmed, served him all through his stay.He told her that with all the hospitality and respect she had accorded him, she was going to have a grandchild that would be well known in foreign land, and incidentally now, the offspring of my late wife has become the youngest elected councilor in London.
Ironically, the new Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammed Sanusi II, now is the first person that congratulated my grand-daughter Aisha Eniola in London through facebook.
I reckon that the pious nature of our elders has always come to fruition whatsoever they said. It is my advice that the new emir be very cautious because in the very word of his grandfather, “mutunsai Allah,” meaning nobody can predict a human being except God. I wish Sanusi II the best and a remarkable reign.
Ahmed Adoke,  Okene, Kogi State.