PHOTO NEWS: Sultan, Tambuwal Splash Traditional Title, N10m, Others On First Qur’anic Recitation Winner From Sokoto 📷: Facebook | Muhammad Bello
While turbaning Abdullahi at the modest occasion held in the competitors honour at the International Conference Center, Kasarawa in Sokoto, the Sultan, on behalf of the Sultanate Council also gave N500,000 to the him.Abdullahi emerged the 37th overall winner of the annual Qur’anic recitation competition, which held last year in Gusau, Zamfara State capital.
Kano State had, on different occasions, won the coveted title 12 times, at one time during its second edition in 1987, producing late Sheikh Jafar Mahmoud Adam , who rose to become a prominent Salafi scholar, before his death in 2007.Kano State is distantly followed in the list of winners by Plateau State, which has produced six winners; while Bauchi and Zamfara State’s are at par with three winners each; followed by Borno and Kaduna States with two winners each.
Kebbi, Adamawa, Kwara, Kogi, Katsina, Gombe and Yobe States respectively, won the competition once over the years. It was not held in 1997, and was merged in 1998/1999, 2003/2004, 2007/2008 and 2021/2022; holding for the second time in 2022. According to the statement, the Sultan was qouted as saying that, “this feat by a young man whose lean stature belies his superlative achievement, deserves to be recognized. This is why we have decided to bring him into the orbit of the Sultanate Council so that his talents would be harnessed in its service, Nigeria and the whole of humanity.”
The Sultan used the occasion to congratulate other winners of Sokoto State origin, who won the competition both at the State and the national levels last year.
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