The Longest-Serving Kingmaker and District Head of Dambatta in Kano, Northwest Nigeria, Mukhtar Adnan is dead.
Adnan, who held the title of ‘Sarkin Ban Kano’, died on Friday at the age of 95 years.
It was learnt that he passed on after a brief illness around 4am and is expected to be buried according to Islamic rites later today (Friday).
The late Adnan was appointed as Sarkin Bai in 1954 by the then Emir Muhammadu Sanusi I.
As the kingmaker, he turbaned four Kano emirs, including late Ado Bayero in 1963.
However, in 2019, he was dismissed as district head of Dambatta, alongside the district heads of Tsanyawa, Dawakin Tofa, Minjibir and Bichi, over alleged opposition to the creation of new government emirates in Kano by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje.
The dismissed district heads were believed to be loyal to the deposed Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi.
After his dismissal as district head of Dambatta in 2019, he retired to his Danbazzau residence in the Kano metropolis, where he lived until his death.
The late traditional ruler was the first Kano State Commissioner for Education in 1968.
Also, he was elected as Member of the Federal House of Representatives during the First Republic and served as the Chief Whip of the Northern Peoples Congress (NPC).
