Sanusi made this known via his Instagram page when he shared pictures of himself speaking at the Thomas Hodgkins Memorial lecture.

He wrote: ” A member of audience asked me: Your Highness! Would you consider leaving your throne to run for office? I said to him : NO!"

The former CBN governor, on Monday March 6, 2017, delivered a lecture at the University alongside ex-INEC boss, Professor Attahiru Jega.

The monarch revealed that he spoke on Tradition, Modernisation and Reform: The Institution of Emir as a Change Agent under the African History and Politics.

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Sanusi also revealed that he spoke to students at the Department of International Relations at the Oxford University, UK.