The Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF and the Middle Belt Forum, have in separate statements condemned what they called a systematic campaign of calumny orchestrated by Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheik Ahmad Abubakar Gumi, against the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike.
PANDEF in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Dr. Ken Robinson, described as irresponsible, absurd, and subversive, recent comments by Gumi on the person and office of the Minister of the FCT, Chief Nyesom Wike.
“It is commonly known that crude oil was swapped instead of payment to contractors in building the infrastructure in Abuja, including the Aso Rock Villa. At that time, no one talked of Abuja belonging to any particular ethnic group. “Remarkably, Nyesom Wike is the 17th Minister of the FCT, but only the second Southerner to be appointed in 47 years, since the creation of the FCT.
“It is needful that all patriots and true lovers of the nation, particularly of northern extraction, without equivocation, denounce the dangerous diatribes of Sheikh Gumi and those of his likes, in the national interest.” Speaking in a similar vein, the Middle Belt Forum in its statement said its attention was drawn to the trending video clip by Sheikh Gumi, a Kaduna-based Islamic Cleric noted for making a case for killer herdsmen across the country and negotiating payment of ransom for the release of kidnapped victims.
“That Muslims should not be comfortable with non-Muslims appointed to head the security agencies as they can’t be trusted to be fair to all groups.“For purposes of clarity, the Middle Belt Forum, an organisation comprising the ethnic nationalities of the Middle Belt Region that stretches across the middle section of Nigeria, wishes to categorically state that the FCT is a part of the Middle Belt.
“The list of the ethnic configuration of the FCT in all known literatures does not include the Fulani as indigenous to the FCT. Thus, the current noise by Gumi and his co-travellers is a failed attempt to stand history on its head.” “As for the issue of headship of security organisations, we all are mere survivors of the horrible results of the eight years of President Buhari when all security agencies were in the hands of Gumi’s Muslim stock.
“Our Muslims brothers, especially from the North, have always resisted the conduct of a census exercise to determine the actual number of people and their various religious/tribal inclinations in the North and in the Country at large.
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