KANO is at a precipice of a conflagration due to the contentious return of Muhammad Sanusi II as emir. Governor Abba Yusuf reinstated Sanusi and deposed his predecessor on May 24 after a new law. But Aminu Ado-Bayero holds sway as emir at the Nasarawa mini palace in the state capital weeks after his deposition. Yusuf should restore the peace in the state.