Vice President Kashim Shettima, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, and several state governors led thousands of people in performing funeral prayers for the late Islamic scholar, Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi, in Bauchi State on Friday.
The National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, and other federal and state officials were also among the mourners who paid their last respects to the Islamic cleric.
The late cleric was, until his death, the supreme leader of the Tijjaniyya movement in the country.
Saturday PUNCH gathered that the scholar died on Thursday at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi, around 1:30 a.m., after a brief illness. He had been admitted to the hospital on Wednesday.
Born in 1927 in Gombe, the late Bauchi devoted his life to Qur’anic education, Islamic scholarship, and spiritual mentorship, which brought him to prominence within and outside the country.
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