Delivering his speech as the Chairman of the occasion, the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero, described the sitting Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, with whom he said exists a close working relationship, as a workaholic in the sense of is tirelessly striving hard to ensure and uphold the unity not only ethnic and religious backgrounds in Nigeria but also seeing to unity of the cosmopolitan North as one entity.
Emir Ade Bayero noted the efforts by some mischievous elements, who especially choose as stock in trade by using attempted distortion of Sheikh Usmanu Dan Fodiyo’s Jihad of 1802-1803 as tool to destroy the peaceful co-existence and unity that used to exist among Northerners of the country.
Because history has a beautiful nature that makes its rewriting uneasy, citing several works of historians locally and globally, the effort of the mischief makers has failed upon arrival, the Sarikin Kano said.
The strongman of the Emirate of Kano State expressed dismay that some people here in Nigeria have been dominating the social media posting stories in attempt to mislead unsuspecting members of the society about the purpose of the Jihad led by Dan Fodiyo, who was the first Amirul Mu’mineen of the Sokoto Caliphate in the post-Jihad, and has continued to be succeeded by his descendants from Sultan Muhammadu Bello until now the current reign of His Eminence Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, CFR, mni, who is the Sultan of Sokoto and Amirul Mu’mineen of Nigeria.
To those mischievous ones Usmanu Dan Fodiyo’s Jihad was an effort by Fulani race of Nigeria to subjugate other tribes to his own but was quick to say such effort comes to futility because the Jihad of the great Islamic teacher and founder of Sokoto Caliphate was rather a reformist thing than talked about.
In his lecture, Sheikh Quick from the Americas, specifically Ontario, Canada, dropped a huge sledge hammer on the lies, distortions of the Jihad and slanders of against the Islamic reformist apostle, saying Sheikh, whose continues to rest in his blessed Hubare (tomb) in Sokoto, against the lies of the slanderers, was an advocate of pure undiluted Islamic practice as well as demand for fairness and justice for practicing Muslims and to be guaranteed that non-Muslims, who had received the message of Islam in the former Gobir Kingdom and had embraced or reverted to the religion, would no longer be attacked.
Sheikh Quick, who said he studied Usman Dan Fodiyo in the Americas, urged Nigerian people and those that were present at the Kasarawa’s International Conference Centre to study activities that happened in 30 years between 1774-1804 and that they would see all the truths that they seek about the time, life and Jihad of Sheikh Usman Dan Fodiyo against the slanders of the slanderers.
Speaking at the grand finale of the Ninth Sheikh Usmanu Bin Fodiyo 1444 (2022) tagged, “Societal Reform Through Effective and Visionary Leadership: Lessons From The Sokoto Jihad Triumvirate”, left the audience with a duty to make up their minds on speaking the truth, standing for fairness and justice as well as making education as pivotal in their quest for better society as, according to him, these are the legacies of Sheikh Usmanu Dan Fodiyo.
Award
1. Usman Dan Fodiyo Award for exemplary leadership – Late Sheikh Abubakar Mahmud Gumi.
He translated the Qur’an from Arabic to Hausa. He was a great leader and scholar.
Received by Sheikh Dr. Ahmed Gumi.
2. Sheikh for Knowledge and Scholarship – Sheikh Sheriff Ibrahim Sani.
3. for Good Governance – Late Emir of Kano
4. Nana Asmau Award for …. – Alhaja Lateefat Okunnu
5. Sultan Abubakar Award in Conflict Service – Alhaji Idris Koko.
6. Sultan Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar Award for Peace Building – Imam Fuad Adeyemi – youngest represent awardee today.
We have to recognise these people to encourage them.
Each Award gets
4. Nana Asmau Award for Social Development
Lateefat Okunnu
Sultan Abubakar Award for Exemplary Public Service…
