Nyerere wanted Edward Moringe Sokoine a fellow Catholic to succeed him but Sokoine died prematurely. Nyerere had to do with a candidate not of his choice and so it passed that Ali Hassan Mwinyi a Zanzibari and an outsider from Nyerere’s circle of loyalists succeeded him. The stage was set for Sheikh Kassim’s exit from one kind of fame into another.
''Mtemvu alimuelezea Ally kwa ufupi juu ya mkutano wao na Nyerere Morogoro mjini na aliomba apewe mara moja kadi 200 za TANU.Ally aliwaandikia na kuwapa kadi za uanachama wa TANU, Mtemvu na Tambwe na akamwambia mdogo wakeAbbas,awaalike wote wawili kwenye mkutano wa uzinduzi wa tawi la TANU la Dar es Salaam ambao ulikuwa ufanyike Jumamosi iliyofuata...