Sultan at 61: Bola Ajibola, Dogara, Tajudeen Olanrewaju, Babafemi Ojudu, others salute

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Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence Alhaji Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar III.

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As Sultan of Sokoto and Leader of over 90 million-member Nigerian Muslim Community, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III clocks 61 Thursday 24th August, 2017, eminent Nigerians have poured in their felicitations with some of them describing the Nigeria’s singular monarch with popularity spread across Africa and the globe as a pragmatic personality.

The felicitations were compiled in a report by The DEFENDER, an online newspaper that keeps a track of notable events surrounding eminent Nigerians, Sultan Muhammad Sa’ad Abukakar III mainly inclusive.

Prince Bola Ajibola (SAN), who is retired Judge of the World Court at The Hague and former Attorney-General of the Federation was happy that the Sultan, whose 60th birthday last year was marked with glamour, had witnessed yet an added year.

Ajibola said, “We are all happy witnessing His Eminence’s 61st birthday anniversary just like we witnessed his 60th.  We pray to Almighty Allah to continue to strengthen and grant him the wisdom to continue with the great job that he is doing for both Muslim and Christian as well as the traditional communities in the country.”

Ajibola, who is also proprietor of Crescent University Abeokuta, Ogun State (CUAB), equally sent the best wishes of the university to the amiable leader who is a recipient of the university’s honourary doctorate degree.

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has also reportedly felicitated with the Sultan on his 61st birth anniversary.

Dogara congratulated the monarch in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs, Mr Turaki Hassan, in Abuja on Wednesday.

He described the Sultan as a man of peace, who used his position to build bridge across religious and cultural divides.

The speaker said that the Sultan had over the years endeared himself to all segments of the society.

“He has demonstrated both in words and in deeds that he is a true man of peace by always preaching unity, mutual understanding and peaceful coexistence among diverse ethnic and religious groups in Nigeria,” Dogara said.

He prayed that the Sultan’s reign would continue to witness remarkable socio-economic development of the nation.

Dogara spoke just as former Minister of Communications, Major General Tajudeen Olanrewaju (Rtd), who is currently in London, United Kingdom, described Sultan of Sokoto as a coolheaded monarch and Muslim leader that he would always admire.

The DEFENDER reports that Olanrewaju would not forget in a hurry the memory of the football days that he and Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar III spent together at Jaji during their course in the Nigerian Army, both of them being fantastic footballers.

The Special Adviser on Political Matters to President Muhammadu Buhari, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, also came to be counted as part of the well-wishers who sent their goodwill messages to the Sultan on his birthday.

“Sultan Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III is a leader that I so much admire and I will continue to be proud of, for his great job that he has done for the peace, unity and progress of Nigerian nation and humanity,” Ojudu said.

The Attah of Ayede Kingdom, Ekiti State, Oba Abdul-Mumini Adebayo Orisagbemi, also congratulated the Sultan on his 61st birthday saying, “I am very happy to be identified with His Eminence Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III as my spiritual leader.  I wish him a happy birthday and many more years ahead in the service of Allah and humanity,” Oba Orisagbemi said.

Former Chairman, Editorial Board of Vanguard Newspapers, Alhaji Kola Animasaun, also greeted the great monarch at 61.

The author of Voice of Reason, Animasaun, said, “I wish His Eminence Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III more blessed years alive.”

Although the Sultan has not indicated any signal to do anything on his 61st birthday, many of his well-wishers who keep track of birthday considered sending their best wishes to him on his birthday as worthwhile.


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