From history, Ibrahim Dasuki, the father of the embattled former National Security Adviser, was the 18th Sultan of Sokoto, Great-great-grandson of Uthman Dan Fodio. Prior to his becoming the Sultan, he held the influential (traditional) title of Baraden Sokoto. The older Dasuki was the first Sultan from the Buhari line of the house of the great Dan Fodio. As a Sultan, Dansuki’s father was the spiritual leader of Nigeria’s Muslim community. He was so influential and worked hard for the happiness of the Talakawas by building several schools and establishing adult literacy classes. He played the role of “the fourth estate realm” in the society. He vehemently opposed the highhandedness of several military regimes, which sometimes put him on the military’s spotlight. His overt posture against the military rule soon earned him the matching orders from the establishment and his subsequent “dethronement” in 1996 by the Sani Abacha Junta.
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