Buhari, Boko Haram’s Shekau Make World’s Most Powerful Muslims List
President Muhammadu Buhari alongside elusive leader of the Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau, have been named among world’s most powerful Muslim leaders.
President Buhari, in the 2017 edition of ‘The Muslim500’, was identified as the 17th most influential Muslim leader in the world.
Other Nigerian Muslims who made top 50 in the latest edition include Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, the Sultan of Sokoto, Saad Abubakar III, Sheik Ibrahim Saleh and Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau.
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According to The Muslim500, there are 1.7 billion Muslims all over the world, making up approximately 23% of the world’s population, it claimed.
The publication especially hailed President Buhari and others for their “cultural, ideological, financial and political” influence on the religion across the world.
It would be recalled that President Buhari came 20th position in the 2016 edition of the periodical.
