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Don’t Contest 2015 Election, Prominent Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Gumi, Tells Buhari by Shine1177: 5:12pm On Oct 21, 2014 |
October 21, 2014Mohammed Lere A Kaduna-based renowned Islamic cleric, Sheik Ahmed Gumi, has called on a former Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari, not to contest the 2015 presidential election. The cleric rather suggested that Mr. Buhari should back a younger person to run for the position. In an open letter to the former head of state, posted on his Facebook page, Mr. Gumi argued that age is not on the side of the retired general and that politicians were only using him to get to power because of his popularity among the masses. He also said a Buhari presidency would further polarise the country and worsen the security challenges the country is grappling with. “My brother in Islam, please listen to the words of wisdom,” Mr. Gumi said. “And don’t follow the whims of the riffraff Before they used you the first time to disrupt the second republic, my father advised you against it. Today I am also advising you against contesting in the 2015 presidential election because you will be used to ignite the nation -a dream well orchestered several years ago- and also be used by bad people as a ladder to grab regional and local powers.” When contacted by PREMIUM TIMES, Mr. Gumi confirmed writing the letter. He said it was his own contribution to peace building in the country. “I have to write him (Mr. Buhari) that letter because we don’t want crisis in Nigeria,” he said. Mr. Buhari last week formally declared his intention to seek the APC presidential ticket at a well-attended rally in Abuja. The following day, he obtained the party’s nomination forms. Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar is also seeking the same ticket just as Kano state Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso. Below is Mr. Gumi’s full message to Mr. Buhari. Assalamu Alaikum The Humble People’s General. I know I have access to you privately but this is meant for others to learn also. The Prophet -peace be upon him- told one of the most honest and truthful of his companions, Abu Zar Algafary: “Oh Abu Zar, I truly love for you what I love for myself. I indeed see that you are weak so never accept to lead even two people and never accept safekeeping of the orphans wealth.” An honest and candid advice from the prophet that is still valid today for any leader whose weakness borders on leadership qualities. The reason for Abu Zar’s weakness has nothing to do with his credibility or truthfulness. Never! The prophet was narrated as saying: “there is nobody under the shadows of trees or bare sun that is more honest in speech than Abu Zar”. Abu Zar – May Allah be pleased with him- is ascetic and inmaterialistic. Abu Zar is incorruptible. And yet he is not suitable for leadership. I am not claiming to be even by an atom’s weight anything close to our noble prophet, yet I am encouraged to give you these same advice by the virtue that you are not also close to Abu Zar in piety. We are living in a time of great tribulations and fitnah especially for this Ummah because of our collective iniquities, ignorance of religious instructions and the love of Dunyah. Sir, your weakness is not in your past impeccable record of accountability of public wealth and the fight against corruption and indiscipline. Your weakness is in your inability to control men compounded further by your strict and obsessive rejection of corruption. Don’t be surprised. You may need to understand that Islam being a pragmatic religion allows the use of Zakkat and public wealth as an instrument to pacify and lure influential people for the sake of righteousness, peace and stability. In modern governance today it translate to security vote. Thus men are also controlled by money. So if your policy of governance is obsessibly centered on sealing tight the use of money, you will have great problem with men. An Arab poet said: “A fool cannot be the leader of his people but the true leader of the people must feign foolishness”. It’s convenient for your ardent supporters to quote copiously from the annals of history your great achievements but when your failures and weaknesses were pointed out they say that was in the past. Is the lessons of past history only good for the positive achievements? Doesn’t that also explains our incessant failures? Your Excellency, good intentions are never enough. In the past, because of your clean records and straightforwardness you were lured by men who want only the vanities Dunya to uproot a young democracy on the caprices of fighting corruption. Corruption is no doubt an evil but there is a more monstrous evil than corruption. That is turmoil and insecurity. Peace and stability are the most important part of governance that no price is to high for them. The lack of peace, stability and security is the major predicament of this nation since independence. So when you were naively used by men to derail one, that is the greatest disservice you committed to the nation the ills of which we are yet to recover from. Do you truly believe Allah is still not in cognizance of that? You were led to uproot a duly elected leader and incarcerate him for close to two years knowing fully well that he has no charge of even the corruption that was labeled against him. Yes, Shagari was the leader and therefore he bears all the responsibility of misdeeds in his government, so also you were a leader and you should bear all the responsibility of derailing the peace and stability of governance in this country as a consequence of that putsch. Your weakness in control of men became evident when the very people that used you to revolt against a constituted authority came back to uproot you from the seat of power. Your own kinsmen. Without a gun cocked in your defence. Today the corruption you were deceived to fight against has reached unimaginable level coupled with the worst state of insecurity and peace in the nation. There was just recently an attempt on your life like many of us. All this because you the honest people that are given the privilege of strengthening the Armed forces left it to meddle in politics. We thus lost everything. Neither the power nor the security. A believer is not stung from the same hole twice. Men used your innocence before to get power and dump you. Please be sensible today. Some other men still want to use you to get power and surely they will dump you again. You don’t share the same philosophy at all. Even though as I explained later, your obsession and philosophy of fighting corruption is not the priority of Nigeria today. What Nigeria needs utmost now is peace and stability? This can only be achieved when the religious ethnic and regional divide is tamed. And you can only tame it with people without much precedence. People without much following. Yet people that are constructive and have the ability to control men. If Sardauna today is alive in your situation he will never contest for the presidential seat because of his deep understanding of what the nation needs. He will step down for a more acceptable younger person. It’s on record that Sardauna even at the age of under 60 said he was not going to contest again, preparing his only house in Rabah for retirement. I’ll give you a similitude to buttress my point of priority. A person seriously injured and fractured from a road traffic accident when brought to the emergency room, the first priority of the doctors is to secure an intravenous line. Meaning get a drip set working into his veins to protect his vital organs like the heart and kidneys from the effects of shock and loss of blood. The fractures, even though serious and the source of the blood loss, may take days and weeks before they are even attended to beside the superficial dressings. Nigeria now needs peace and stability first. Then we talk of good governance later even though it’s the source of the predicament we are facing. The present government has already charged the situation and played the religious divide to its advantage. It’s in circulation now, a SW pastor calling on Christians and the church to vote Jonathan as their only Saviour. This religious card will be used to cover his deficiency in governance. Your Excellency, you should understand too, that many, if not most of your supporters, are also looking up to you to protect them from the onslaught on their religion and region. This also the Christian will never believe the otherwise. Therefore the stage is set for religious confrontation which is the least the nation needs. What we need as a priority is peace and stability. From my view, if APC can support as an example Ameachi or Okorocha/Kwankwaso or El-Rufai or Tambuwwal ticket and the PDP will have Akpabio/Muazu or Ribadu or Shekaru, the next four years will. – insha Allah – witness stability both in the north and south. And the electoral body will get the necessary infrastructure that subsequently the next election will be free and fair and the true reflection of Nigerians. If you may ask, why can’t this same peace be achieved with you and another Christian running mate? Gen. you have antagonist, and they are many and also as ardent as your supporters. Your supporters have the biggest proportion of the underprivileged of the society which is the petrol that can be easily ignited by the slightest spark. The spark will be when you’re declared the loser. And you know you can very well lose if the Christians follow their church -and why not in this era of mediocrity. On the other hand if Jonathan comes back. BH will be real not the political one we see. The turmoil will engulf the whole country not only the north. That is why I also call on PDP to present some other candidates. My brother in Islam, please listen to the words of wisdom. And don’t follow the whims of the riffraff. Before they used you the first time to disrupt the second republic, my father advised you against it. Today I am also advising you against contesting in the 2015 presidential election because you will be used to ignite the nation -a dream well orchestered several years ago- and also be used by bad people as a ladder to grab regional and local powers. I rest my case here. My best regards and condolence for your recent loss. May Allah guide you and protect you from the evil men and the jinn. Amin. https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/169844-dont-contest-2015-election-prominent-islamic-cleric-sheikh-gumi-tells-buhari.html https://www.facebook.com/AhmadAbubakarMahmudGumi?fref=nf |
Re: Don’t Contest 2015 Election, Prominent Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Gumi, Tells Buhari by Shine1177: 5:13pm On Oct 21, 2014 |
Those that love the people's General has started advising him. What a candid advice. ***edited*** Hope you will be happy and the people's General will allow peace to reign. The cleric rightly told him its good to fight corruption but their is one more thing that is greater than fighting corruption - it's PEACE. When the General loses on 14/2/2015, he will weep again and his ardent followers may cause mayhem seeing their beloved leader crying. The religious part of his letter is not the whole truth and may I saw this Sheik knows more than he is saying about boko haram...he claims that the real boko haram will start in 2015 if GEJ wins. SSS sir. |
Re: Don’t Contest 2015 Election, Prominent Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Gumi, Tells Buhari by mrofficial(m): 5:17pm On Oct 21, 2014 |
Shine1177: Your post would have made sense if you didn't add this fresh air nonsense. The question is, what are TANdroids scared of? 1 Like |
Re: Don’t Contest 2015 Election, Prominent Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Gumi, Tells Buhari by dregmaster: 5:29pm On Oct 21, 2014 |
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Re: Don’t Contest 2015 Election, Prominent Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Gumi, Tells Buhari by Jesusloveyou: 6:21pm On Oct 21, 2014 |
I love d advice,but don't u think is now we need d general? to me,to fight corruption is first aid nigeria need first.it is corrupt dat breed poverty,which lead to violent and insecurity,again weak buhari is better than silent killer gej. |
Re: Don’t Contest 2015 Election, Prominent Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Gumi, Tells Buhari by Shine1177: 7:33pm On Oct 21, 2014 |
Jesusloveyou:We have to understand that most of those propping General Buhari are yesterday men who intend to get to power using the general, if these people are not on the same page with him as it's glaring he alone cannot curb corruption because there is separation of power in democracy which was different from the general's background of decreeing orders. That was why OBJ had issues working with the NASS during his tenure. |
Re: Don’t Contest 2015 Election, Prominent Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Gumi, Tells Buhari by Nonybb: 7:41pm On Oct 21, 2014 |
I have seen an exception. My apologies to all hausa Muslims thinking that all of them got Cow brain. It only a f0ol would vote a Serial Loser, Dictator, Jihadist, Religious Bigot, Coupist to lead a complex society like Nigeria. An impromptu leader is worse than a clueless Jonathan Nobody hates Hausa People but Just give us a young refined specie and not some old failures |
Re: Don’t Contest 2015 Election, Prominent Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Gumi, Tells Buhari by alotofgrace(m): 7:44pm On Oct 21, 2014 |
maka rish office 1st |
Re: Don’t Contest 2015 Election, Prominent Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Gumi, Tells Buhari by alotofgrace(m): 7:45pm On Oct 21, 2014 |
this is interesting maka rish office 1st |
Re: Don’t Contest 2015 Election, Prominent Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Gumi, Tells Buhari by maslong(m): 8:17pm On Oct 21, 2014 |
I know I have access to you privately but this is meant for others to learn also. Do you truly believe Allah is still not in cognizance of that? You were led to uproot a duly elected leader and incarcerate him for close to two years knowing fully well that he has no charge of even the corruption that was labeled against him. A believer is not stung from the same hole twice. Men used your innocence before to get power and dump you. Please be sensible today. Some other men still want to use you to get power and surely they will dump you again. If Sardauna today is alive in your situation he will never contest for the presidential seat because of his deep understanding of what the nation needs. He will step down for a more acceptable younger person. Gen. you have antagonist, and they are many and also as ardent as your supporters. Your supporters have the biggest proportion of the underprivileged of the society which is the petrol that can be easily ignited by the slightest spark. The spark will be when you’re declared the loser. And you know you can very well lose if the Christians follow their church -and why not in this era of mediocrity. My brother in Islam, please listen to the words of wisdom. And don’t follow the whims of the riffraff. Before they used you the first time to disrupt the second republic, my father advised you against it. Today I am also advising you against contesting in the 2015 presidential election because you will be used to ignite the nation -a dream well orchestered several years ago- and also be used by bad people as a ladder to grab regional and local powers. I rest my case here. |
Re: Don’t Contest 2015 Election, Prominent Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Gumi, Tells Buhari by b3llo(m): 8:31pm On Oct 21, 2014 |
Hypocrisy is when you say that Buhari is too old at 70 and you keep calling Awolowo and Zik your heros. Whereas, Awo and Zik contested for Presidency in 1983 when they were both 74 and 77 respectively! Hypocrisy is when you say the youths are better than the old.... Whereas the youths were responsible for the wars we had and are still having in Nigeria. .. Ojukwu and Gowon in 1967..... Asari, Tompolo, Shekau in today's Nigeria. Youth doesn't connote soundness of mind and old doesn't mean you're senile. GEJ became Dep. Governor in his 40s, Obj first Presidency was in 40s, IBB ruled Nigeria in his 40s......Look at NANS today, will you be comfortable if GEJ handover to NANS Executive? There are good youths and good old ones......Age doesn't take your brains away, neither is youthfulness a guarantee for mental fertility! It is still this Buhari, yes that incorruptible Governor. Yes, that Petroleum Minister who constructed our refineries. ...that Head of State that started War Against Indiscipline that has been reduced to Environmental Sanitation today...Yes that man that paid Nigeria's huge debt but didn't borrow.....Yes it is still Buhari, handsome man with pointed nose.....A chief of army staff who went after the Chadian invaders and outran them, captured them and recovered all and put the fear of Nigeria in the minds of all her neighbours ...... Buhari the PTF Chairman whose performance, no one has ever come close to......A public officer with cleanest Record, most outstanding. performance ...... Frank and Bold, Tactical and Prudent. A renowned enemy of Corruption .....Lover of Nigeria ....... It is still this same Buhari that says 'Here I am, send me'..... An ideal man for 2015.We need a change! |
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