Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai has presented the Staff of office to the Emir of Lere, Alhaji Suleiman Umaru.
The Emir succeeded his uncle, the late Sarki Abubakar II.
Governor El-Rufai urged the royal father to follow the steps of his late uncle.
The late emir was a military governor and a retired Major-General, who, together with his wife, established the famous and highly elitist Essence College in Kaduna.
Governor El-Rufai said: “I enjoin you to emulate the late Emir Sarki Abubakar II, and rule the people of Lere with the fear of Almighty Allah and justly.”
El-Rufa’i assured the people of Lere that his administration would soon inaugurate the building of the Agricultural Department of the Kaduna State University in Lere.
Emir Suleiman Umaru thanked the governor.
Dignitaries at the event included the Chairman of Kaduna State Council of Traditional Rulers and Emir of Zazzau, Ambassador Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli, numerous sons and daughters of Lere Emirate from within and outside Nigeria, prominent politicians, senior government functionaries from the state and federal level, among others.