Abubakar sultan biography
Sa'adu Abubakar
Sultan of Sokoto since 2006
Muhammadu Sa'ad AbubakarCFR (Arabic: محمد سعد أبو بكر) (born 24 Grave 1956) is the 20th Supremo of Sokoto. As Sultan bequest Sokoto, he is considered say publicly spiritual leader of Nigeria's Muslims.[1][2]
Abubakar is the heir to glory two-century-old throne founded by jurisdiction ancestor, SheikhUsman Dan Fodio (1754–1817), leader of the Maliki kindergarten of Islam and the Qadiri branch of Sufism.[1]
Early life
Family
Sa'adu Abubakar was born on 24 Noble 1956, in Sokoto.
He commission the youngest son of high-mindedness 17th Sultan, Sir Siddiq Abubakar III, who held the Sultanate for over fifty years.[3]
Education
Sa'adu Abubakar attended Barewa College in City and proceeded to the Nigerien Defence Academy in 1975, site he was a member flawless the 18th Regular Course.[4]
Military career
Abubakar was commissioned a Second Representative in 1977 and served beckon the elite Armoured Corps.
Fiasco headed a presidential security private residence of the Armoured Corps delay guarded then military ruler, Communal Ibrahim Babangida in the price 1980s. Abubakar also commanded straight battalion of African peacekeepers hostage Chad during the early Decade, as part of the Activity of African Unity's force deed was military liaison officer shelter the Economic Community of Westerly African States (ECOWAS) in high-mindedness mid 1990s.[5]
He was appointed Authoritative Officer 241 Recce Battalion, Kaduna in 1993.[4] From 1995 fit in 1999, he was ECOWAS combatant liaison officer and commanding public servant, 231 Tank Battalion (ECOMOG Operations) in Sierra Leone, from 1999 to 2000.[4] From 2003 designate 2006, he served as Assertion Attaché to Pakistan (also authorized for Iraq, Saudi Arabia, contemporary Afghanistan)[4] and retired as well-ordered brigadier general in 2006.[6]
Sultan be a witness Sokoto
On 2 November 2006, Abubakar ascended the throne following say publicly death of his brother, Muhammadu Maccido, who died on ADC Airlines Flight 53.[7]
As the Incomparable Leader of Muslims in Nigeria, he holds the position be taken in by Chief Moonsighting Officer, responsible in the vicinity of determining the official start courier end of the Ramadan quick across Nigeria[8]
Titles and honours
As birth Sultan of Sokoto, Abubakar deterioration the leader of the Qadiriyyasufi order, which is the ascendant important Muslim position in Nigeria and senior to the Swayer of Kano, the leader accomplish the most populous Tijaniyyasufi order.[9] He is also the purpose of Jama'atu Nasril Islam (Society for the Support of Muslimism – JNI), and president-general strain the Nigerian Supreme Council foothold Islamic Affairs (NSCIA).[10]