President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the fight against insecurity and other challenges in Nigeria needs divine intervention. The President made the
Two prominent clerics- Sheikh Dahiru Usman Bauchi and Sheikh Sheriff Ibrahim Saleh- are seen as the torchbearers of the Tijjaniyya sect in Nigeria.
Former Emir Sanusi had in an interview with the Hausa Service of the BBC, on Tuesday, said a delegation of prominent scholars was sent to Nigeria by Khalifa Sheikh Mahy Nyass to consult Nigerian clerics on their the preferred choice to lead the sect in the country.
He said that 98 per cent of the clerics selected him as their choice.
“As people already know, this was my grandfather’s position… The late Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi I and all my life, I have no ambition than to inherit him. I inherited him and became the Emir of Kano and today, Almighty Allah has made it possible for me and I inherited him as Khalifa of Tijjaniyya.
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Sheikh Mahi Nyass, the Grand World Leader (Caliphatul Arrm) of Dhariqa Tijjaniyya has denied appointing the former Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, as the African leader of the Islamic sect.
The younger brother of the leader, Sheikh Makey Nyass, was reported to had made the appointment public during one of their the sect’s activities for the just-concluded Sheikh Ibrahim Nyass Maulud in Sokoto.
Makey was quoted to have referred Emir Sanusi II as following the footsteps of his late grand father, late Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi I who was deposed by the government and later on appointed leader of the Sect in Africa by his father, Sheikh Ibrahim Nyass.