You can’t threaten Tinubu’s govt to secure FG’s negotiation contract with bandits, terrorists, Igboho tackles Gumi
As criticisms continue to greet the recent reported outburst of the northern Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, over the appointment of some Christians into strategic positions, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Igboho, on Tuesday, said the cleric cannot use subtle threat to re-secure his negotiation contract with bandits under the administration of President Bola Tinubu.
Adeyemo said Tinubu’s choice of his ministers and their activities should not be allegedly used as a decoy by Gumi to seek reckoning or discreet threat to get the job of negotiating with mindless bandits and terrorists, like he did under the immediate past government of ex President Muhammadu Buhari.
It is recalled that video clip of the popular Islamic cleric, decrying the appointment of southern Christians by Tinubu to head strategic positions in the North and Wike’s recent hosting of Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria, Michael Freeman, in his Abuja office, had elicited criticisms from some quarters.
However, in a personally signed statement forwarded to journalists in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, Adeyemo warned Gumi to desist from “fanning ember of disunity in Nigeria with his inflammatory statements, which he claimed are capable of causing disaffection among the citizenry.
The statement read: “We know Gumi’s pedigree and his antics. Before the advent of Tinubu, individuals like him should be explaining his roles to the security agencies on the festering insurgency in the northern parts of the country.
“While we will continue to advocate for an egalitarian society, we cannot fold our arms and allow Sheikh Ahmad Gumi to heat up the polity through his careless, destructive and inciting statements via his preachings. Nigeria’s seculiarity as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution must not be abused by anybody no matter how highly or lowly placed.
“We are not advocates for the Federal Government, but we remain part of critical stakeholders in Nigeria’s project, hence the need to drum sanity and decorum into the ears of anybody with traces of tendencies for religious fanaticism.
“For peace to reign supreme, it is incumbent on all and sundry to desist from any act that trigger mutual suspicion, distrust and needless crisis among Nigerians, “the statement concluded.