Ibrahim Dasuki, the former 18th Sultan of Sokoto and father of the embattled former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki has died at the age of 93.
A close associate of Ahmadu Bello, the late Sarduana of Sokoto and the late Islamic scholar Abubakar Gumi, Mr. Dasuki died at a private hospital in Abuja.
The first Sultan from the family line of the house of Uthman Dan Fodio, Dasuki was deposed as Sultan by the late former military dictator, Sani Abacha, in 1996.
Since then, he has been living in Kano on self exile.
He will be buried in Sokoto later today accordance with moslem rites.
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