I discovered that Sheikh is the Arabic equivalent of Shehu.
Due to youthful exuberance, I felt that if Sheikh is the correct Arabic pronunciation of Shehu, why shouldn’t I change it.
And since then, I started using Sheikh in place of Shehu.
And Sheikh has remained your name till date?
Yes, but I later realized the embarrassment I caused myself.
When I started having contact with Arab scholars in 1969, after the formation of the Islamic Education Trust (IET), I was not comfortable introducing myself as Sheikh each time I met with such scholars at meetings and conferences because sheikh to the Arabs is a title used for the learned or aged and I was neither.