Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani Kayode has blasted popular Islamic Cleric Sheikh Ahmed Gumi over his inciteful and irresponsible comment to bandits.
Sheikh has been on a tour to dialogue with bandits and convinces them to drop their arms. In one of the tour, he told the bandits that it was Christian soldiers that were killing them and not Muslims.
This comment has sparked a lot of outrage among Nigerians who believes that Sheikh Gumi was not speaking in the best interest of Nigerians and unity.
FFK as popularly known reminded Sheikh Gumi of his late father’s inciteful comment against the Christians during the reign of General Ibrahim Babangida.
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In 1989, when IBB was in power, the founder of the Izala Muslim sect, Sheik Abubakar Gumi, said it would only be over his dead body that another Christian would rule Nigeria. He died 3 years later & one year after that a Christian called Ernest Shonekan became Head of State.
In 2021 his son, Sheik Ahmed Gumi told Fulani terrorists, who he claims are fighting an “ethnic war” because they have been neglected by Govt. & who he believes ought to be forgiven, compensated & rehabilitated for their crimes against humanity) that Muslim soldiers are not the ones that are killing them but rather the Christian ones. He also told them to stop kidnapping Muslims as it causes them to lose sympathy amongst the Muslim population.
His father’s comments were bad enough but Sheik Ahmed’s comments are worse: they are irresponsible, reckless, dangerous & incendiary & could spark off a chain of events that can cause Nigeria & West Africa to be engulfed in the fire & horror of war for the next 50 years. I appreciate his efforts to rescue the kidnapped but must this be at the expense of Christian blood?
Are the Christians of the North expendable? Should they be the whipping boy and the sacrificial lamb for the barbaric savages & terrorists? I do wonder why the Gumi’s hate Christians so much? Is it genetic or are they just irredeemably heartless & insensitive?
Inciting Fulani terrorists to target & butcher members of the Christian community in Nigeria and appealing to them to attack and kill only Christian soldiers whilst sparing the Muslim ones does not augur well for national cohesion, peaceful co-existence and unity.
It will only lead to further division & as a matter of fact, it is the path to a full scale & full-blown ethnic & religious war the likes of which have never been seen. This must NEVER be allowed to happen in our country. We must, as Christians & Muslims come together & fight the terrorists AS ONE.
There can be NO peace or dialogue with mass murderers, ethnic cleansers & genocidal maniacs.
In this war, we must give no quarter. Ours is to use all means available to resist & crush them & despatch them to the afterlife. It is left to God to forgive them.
To make matters worse Sheik Ahmed has said we must not refer to these terrorists and bandits as criminals! I don’t know whether to laugh or cry and had I not known better I would have had cause to question this man’s sanity.
What else do you call cold-blooded killers of defenceless women and children if not cowards and criminals?
Would he prefer we call them saints and kind-hearted charity workers?
