Popular Islamic scholar, Dr. Ahmad Gumi, son of late
famous Sheik Abubakar Gumi this morning wrote General
Muhammadu Buhari an open letter asking him not to
contest the 2015 presidential election against President
Goodluck Jonathan in view of its severe implications.
Sheik Ahmad Gumi
Gumi’s public letter to Buhari was following reaction that
trailed his piece ‘The Second Round Of Goodluck Vs
Buhari: A Source Of Apprehension’
published by this medium on 18th October, 2014. Several
supporters of Buhari have criticised Gumi over his letter
accusing him of jealousy and hatred for Buhari.
The cleric, who insisted that he will not shy away from
speaking the truth, cautioned Buhari to be conscious of
those surrounding him for political gain.
Sections of the letter read as follows:
I know I have access to your privy 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 who's 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 this 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 indispiline. 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 rightouness,
peace and stability. In modern governance today it
translate into the 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 explain 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 lead to uproot a duly elected leader
and incrassate 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.
You 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 defense. 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 it's
advantage. It's in circulation now, a SW pastor calling
on Christians and the church to vote Jonathan as
their only Savior. This religious card will be used to
cover for 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
Amaechi or Okorocha/Kwankwaso or El-Rufai or
Tambuwwal ticket and the PDC will have Ukpabio/
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 riff raff.
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 elections because you will be
used to ignite the nation -a dream well orchestrated
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 to your recent loss.
May Allah guide you and protect you from the evil
men and the jinn. Amin.
Ahmad Abubakar Mahmud Gumi
Kaduna,
SOURCE:
SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORK

As true muslim Buhari should listen to his Imam, he should spare himself the forthcoming disgrace of entering the history books as perpetual loser.

Tank almighty GOD dis is comin 4rm a fellow muslim lik Buhari.a word is a enof 4d wise!