Auyo

Auyo was one of several old kingdoms in the country around Hadejia, between the Hausa states and Bornu. Local traditions count it among the oldest of these small states, alongside Garun Gabas, and relate its foundation to that of Shira and Tashena farther south. The rulers of the region were said to receive their titles from the Mai of Bornu through his representative at Nguru. Auyo thus belonged to a landscape of neighbouring courts and older political ties before the rise of the Hadejia emirate in the nineteenth century.