This is why I can confidently make bold to say that Ahmad Gumi's evil has no limitation and knows no end. He is darkness that seeks darkness.
Worse of all is the fact that during the course of his sermon he referred to Christians as "infidels."Anyone, no matter how powerful, influential, wealthy, well-connected, loved, revered or highly placed, who tries to use religion or ethnicity to divide our people, trouble our peace, undermine our security or destabilise our country will not only face the full wrath of the Living God and the Nigerian people but will also be brought to justice.
I believe that both Christians and Muslims should and must be given their due respect in this country and that the adherents and leaders of both of these two great faiths must let love guide their every word and action, and they must strive to live together in unity, peace and harmony. The inciting, provocative and deeply insulting words which I shall quote in this contribution, from a man who hates Christians, Middle Belters and Southerners with what the Holy Bible describes as “a perfect hatred” and who is a dangerous subversive will prove it.I am constrained to begin this essay with a link to his sermon , which was delivered in a Kaduna mosque a few days ago.
Such was the senior Gumi’s zeal for Islamic fundamentalism and obsession for our country to be transformed into an Islamic state that he once infamously proclaimed, before a massive congregation of his followers and disciples, that a Christian would only rule Nigeria “over his dead body.” Un-Islamic, anti-Christiaan, intolerant, aggressive, delusional, stubborn, intemperate, intransigent, uncompromising, ignorant, blind, deaf, dumb, intellectually deficient and wholeheartedly relentless in their arrogant assertions and archaic proselytising, these extremists are not only a danger to all but they also present an existential threat to our nation.
Again the Chief E.K. Clark-led PANDEM, which spoke for the people of the South-South and Niger Delta and the Middle Belt Forum, which spoke for the people of the Middle Belt also put him in his place. Gumi is clearly a man who delights and revels in carnage, butchery, bloodshed, strife, war, and perpetual and never-ending conflict.Thankfully, he does not represent the Muslim community in our country: He only represents Daesh, ISWAP, ISIS, Al Shabab, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Hamas and Boko Haram.
Someone should please tell this dangerous, deluded, malevolent, mendacious and misguided little person that there is no longer any place for religious or ethnic politics and bigotry in Nigeria. Yet, his nonsense did not stop there. He went on to say that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu would not be allowed to remain in power for the next four or eight years, unless he met their demands.
He said so many other explosive and provocative things which can be seen in the full text of his sermon, including the absurd, wild and unsubstantiated allegation that President Goodluck Jonathan, a man who is regarded by many as one of the most restrained, gentle, kind, compassionate and rational presidents that Nigeria has ever had and one who simply refused to abuse power, had planned to murder him when he was in power, simply because he was a...
Worse still, deep down, those who think like him do not regard any Yoruba or Southern Muslim as a real one.He went on to indulge in a mischievous and nonsensical journey of historical revisionism, making all sorts of wild and inaccurate claims. He said so many other explosive and provocative things which can be seen in the full text of his sermon, including the absurd, wild and unsubstantiated allegation that President Goodluck Jonathan, a man who is regarded by many as one of the most restrained, gentle, kind, compassionate and rational presidents that Nigeria has ever had and one who simply refused to abuse power, had planned to murder him when he was in power, simply because he was a...
This is a man who, a few weeks before the 2023 presidential elections, said “Don’t vote for those who will fight bandits. The fighters are our people. So please vote for those who, after attaining power, will call and negotiate with our people so as to give them what they want for peace to reign.” He conveniently forgot to mention the fact that Chief S.L. Akintola, Brigadier Ademulegun, Colonel Unuigbe, Chief Festus Okotie Eboh, Colonel Yakubu Pam, Colonel Sodeinde and many other Christian political leaders and military officers were killed by the same people on the same night.
This “revenge coup” was led by Northern officers of both Christian and Muslim extraction like Lt. Col. T.Y. Danjuma, Lt. Col. Martins Adamu, Lt. Colonel Yakubu Gowon, Lt. Colonel Murtala Mohammed, Lt. Ibrahim Babaginda, Lt. Muhammadu Buhari, Lt. Col. I.B.M Haruna, Lt. Sani Abacha and others. Most of the key planners and senior officers involved in that mutiny, including General Ibrahim Babangida, General Sani Abacha, General Tunde Idiagbon, General Muhammadu Buhari and many others, happened to be Muslim and sadly during the course of the event, blood was shed.
He says Christians like to kill but can he tell us if it was Christians who killed over 100,000 innocent Igbo Christian civilians in three months of genocidal pogroms in core Northern Nigeria in 1966? Are those who have wiped out entire communities in the name of ethnic cleansing and stolen their land Christians?
Did Gumi ever complain about or make any reference to this great injustice done to a fellow Muslim or is it that Southern Muslims are not Muslim enough? Sadly most of those who constitute the Nigerian elite and ruling class, including politicians, clerics on both side of the religious divide, intellectuals and professionals, have chosen to ignore this cantankerous and utterly insidious man over the years and allowed him to get away with his evil out of a sense of political correctness, fear and cowardice.
Nigeria is a multi-religious, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic secular state and therein lies our strength, pride and joy. Worse of all is the fact that during the course of his sermon he referred to Christians as “infidels.”
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