On thisday November 2 2006 Mohammed Sada Abubakar, a 53-year-old army colonel, was appointed as the 20th sultan of Sokoto and the spiritual leader of Nigeria's Muslims.
Abubakar, whose army career has included postings to the Middle East as military attaché, was among three people whose names were submitted to the state government by a 10-member council of kingmakers.
He succeeds his late brother Mohammadu Maccido, who was killed in a plane crash on Sunday, October 29, as the 20th sultan of Sokoto, in the far north of Nigerian on the arid Niger border.
The largely ceremonial role of the Sokoto Sultan includes declaring the timing of Muslim holidays, such Ramadan and 'Eid.
He also acts as the foremost traditional ruler in northern Nigeria.
Nigeria’s recent census shows that Muslims make up 55 percent of the country’s 133 million population, Christians 40 percent and animists five percent.
TBT; makes it 9 years.
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