Nigeria, May 24 -- The Governor of Kano State, Abba Yusuf, on Friday, said he reinstated Lamido Sanusi as Emir of Kano despite being restrained by a court because the judge who issued the order was not physically present in Nigeria to issue it.

The governor said he would report the judge to the Nigeria Governors' Forum for alleged abuse of court orders. He spoke while presenting a reinstatement letter to Mr Sanusi.

Before the presentation of the reinstatement letter to Mr Sanusi on Friday, a judge of the Federal High Court in Kano, on Thursday, restrained the governor and the state government from implementing the new emirate law under which Mr Sanusi was reinstated.

The law, passed on Thursday by the state House of Assembly and assent...