Late Emir of Kano, Ado Bayero’s mistress, Princess Hauwa Momoh has cried out for help… “The late emir was a good man who loved me and his children. He treated us well and never allowed us to suffer for once. It was when he died that the problem started. His sons promised to take care of us, but suddenly, they threw us out. We don’t have a home anymore and my children are out of school. We are stranded. It has been very hard for us.”

Late Emir of Kano, Ado Bayero

“I was in Abuja sometime ago when two policemen, who claimed to have been sent by the family, cautioned me not to do anything stupid. A few days after that, I was lodged in a hotel in Abuja when some operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad came to look for me. Somebody hid me and that was how they couldn’t find me.”

“Since then, I have been moving from one place to another to beg for food and money. I can’t go to Kano again. The house built for me by the emir had been destroyed. The last time I visited, I had to sleep in the open air because people were afraid to take me into their homes.”

“The son that is managing the father’s estate did not help us and he does not want me to speak out. He is also blocking people from helping me. SARS men are looking for me, what is my offence?”

“I want help for my children because they are out of school. I am alone. The situation is critical now because we can’t even feed. I want Nigerians to help me. I appeal to the good conscience of Aliko Dangote, Bola Tinubu, and the Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, to save me and my children.”

“I believe that I am being treated with disdain because I am not a northerner, I am disappointed that the sons of the late emir are not protecting his name. The late Ado Bayero’s deathbed instruction to his sons on my welfare and that of my children are not being carried out.”

For those who don’t know, Princess Hauwa’s father, Ahmed Momoh was the Otairu of Auchi, Edo State and a close friend of the late Emir of Kano, Ado Bayero. So, Ahmed in 1984 handed over his daughter to the emir to be her guardian and also assist her with admission into the Bayero University, Kano. However, Hauwa and the late emir became so intimate and became pregnant for him and later went on to have another child for the emir making it two.