I am a Christian. I was born one and I will die one. I take my faith very seriously and I count it as being more important to me than anything else in life.
Despite that I supported and campaigned vigorously for a Muslim/Muslim ticket in the 2023 presidential election because I believe that religion has no place in politics and that competence is the relevant factor when it comes to leadership rather than faith.


That does not however mean that as a Christian I will stand by quietly and allow anyone to denigrate my faith. 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 strive to live together in unity, peace and harmony.

I also believe that where we see danger signals and identify circumstances and individuals that may threaten that peace and harmony we must challenge and expose them, call them to order before it is too late and bring them to the attention of the authorities.
It is for these reasons that I have made the following well-researched and detailed contribution about a man that I believe can best be described as the Cleric of Blood.

We saw the face of hate & the spirit of ISIS manifest itself in the most barbaric & profound manner when Hamas unleashed its unadulterated savagery on the people of Israel on October 7th. On that day the Jewish State experienced it’s darkest hour. Sadly that face is raising its bloodlusting and bloodthirsty head in Nigeria today.

The inciting, provocative & deeply insulting words which I shall qoute in this contribution, from a man that hates Christians, Middle Belters & Southerners with what the Holy Bible describes as “a perfect hatred” & a man that is a vicious psychopath, a dangerous subversive & an unrelenting & insidious religious & ethnic bigot will prove it. He is indeed the cleric of blood, destruction and carnage & his name is Sheik Ahmad Gumi.

I am constrained to begin this essay with a link to his sermon (as repugnant as it was) which was delivered in a Kaduna mosque a few days ago. The words were translated from Hausa & here is the link of the FULL text: https://newsonlineng.com/exclusive-sheikh-gumis-full-statement-against-fct-minister-and-christians/

I suggest that readers trace the link on google and go through it carefully so that they can fully appreciate the gravity & depravity of his dangerous allegations and perverse assertions. It is clear that there are some hidden yet sinister and dark forces both within and outside Nigeria that are behind this evil man and that are encouraging him to continue to tread this reckless and dangerous course.

He is a believer in the doctrine of ‘Taqfir’ and a committed adherent of the hardline Salafist ‘Wahabi’ philosophy which forms the bedrock and foundation of the evil organisation that the Arabs describe as ‘Daesh’. His late father, Sheik Abubakar Gumi, was an equally controversial cleric with a massive following and a committed hard-line Islamist.

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”. It is instructive to note that the man died not too long after that and a Christian by the name of Chief Ernest Shonekan became Head of State in what was then described as our Interim Government.

The dark forces that Ahmad Gumi, his father Abubakar Gumi and those that think like them represent have little to do with the great and compassionate faith of Islam which insists on equity, justice, tolerance, submission to the will of God and peace.

The fact that they are unable to accomodate and live peacefully with others, including real Muslims and Christians, in a multi-religious, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic nation like ours makes them enemies of the Nigerian state and the Nigerian people.

Unislamic, 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.

When he was confronted with a barrage of criticism & outrage from Nigerians after his sermon Ahmad Gumi expressed no remorse & instead he said, “I will not respond to irritants in democracy!” What an insensitive & arrogant soul he is.

This is the kind of man that would have been celebrating and having multiple orgasms whilst watching the slaughter and massacar of innocent and helpless Jewish women and children by the beasts of Hamas on CNN on October 7th. The only saving grace in this whole ugly episode is the fact that some Northern elders have displayed true leadership & commitment to the peace & unity of Nigeria & disowned Gumi over his threats.

Again the Chief E. K. Clark-led PANDEM who spoke for the people of the South South & Niger Delta & the Middle Belt Forum who spoke for the people of the Middle Belt also put him in his place. Bishop El Buba, Sunday Igboho and Asari Dokubo have also spoken out against him and his divisive rhetoric on behalf of the Church, the South West and the South South respectively. This is commendable and encouraging.

For the record my response to his malodorous & repugnant diatribe is as follows. The scripture that came to my spirit after reading his dangerous and utterly outrageous incitement was Psalm 59:2 which says “may the Lord deliver us from bloodthirsty & evil men”.

I am simply astounded by the hateful disposition, poisonous venom, putrid verbiage, puerile assertions, malicious deceit, perfidious falsehood & divisive rhetoric coming from a man who lays claim to being a pious & peaceful religious leader!

Gumi is clearly a man that delights & revels in carnage, butchery, bloodshed, strife, war & perpetual & never-ending conflict. He is also the face of hate & the full embodiment & living manifestation of the spirit of ISIS.
Thankfully he does not represent the Muslim community in our country: he only represents Daesh, ISWAP, ISIS, Al Shabab, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Hamas & Boko Haram.

He does not represent reasonable, rational, peace-loving, pious and serious-minded Northern Muslim leaders like the Sultan of Sokoto, the Emir of Kano, the Shehu of Borno, Sheik Dahiru Bauchi, Professor Isa Pantami, Senator Ahmed Sani Yerima, Sheik Muhammad Sani Yahaya Jingir Jos, Sheik El Zak Zaky and so many others that we know and whose integrity and commitment to the peace and unity of Nigeria we can vouch for: he only represents the violent, extreemist and murderous beasts that are on the lunatic fringe.

Yet whichever way you view him one thing is clear: Gumi is attempting to ignite a religious & ethnic war in Nigeria & someone needs to call him to order before it is too late.

When he says Southerners & Christians “cannot be trusted with security”, that the FCT Minister is “satanic” simply because he received the Israeli Ambassador in his office & that those of us that supported a Muslim/Muslim ticket are worthless hypocrites, money-mongers & accursed citizens who chased dollars for pleasure & worldly purposes, it is clear that he has lost touch with reality & that he is looking for trouble.

Someone please tell this dangerous, deluded, malevolent, mendacious & misguided little creature that there is no longer any place for religious or ethnic politics & bigotry in Nigeria.

He dismisses the fact that the President, the Vice President, the Minister of Defence, the Minister of State of Defence, the National Security Advisor, the DG of DSS, the DG of NIA, the Chief of Air Staff, the Chief of Army Staff, the Chief of Staff to the President, the Speaker of the House of Reps & the Chief Justice of the Federation are ALL Muslims & insists that Muslims must also be in charge of the command & control structures of ALL our security & intelligence agencies & the three arms of the military, namely the Army, Navy & Airforce.

Of course he was ecstatic when under the Buhari administration every single one of Nigeria’s 17 security agencies & branches of the military were under the command & control of not just Muslims but Northern Muslims.That arrangement, despite its blatant disregard for the principles of Federal Character & ethnic & religious balancing gave him joy. Clearly he wants us to return to that unjust, unacceptable & dangerous arrangement.

Better still, given his words & by his warped & asinine logic, he would prefer us to remove ALL Christian personnel from our military, intelligence & security agencies, ban them from joining & allow only Muslims to serve. 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.

Finally he made his most absurd & asinine point when he ended his sermon by saying that because Nyesom Wike, the Minister of FCT who happens to be a Southerner & a Christian, received the Israeli Ambassador in his office it meant that the Tinubu Government are planning to turn Abuja “into Tel Aviv where Muslims would be targetted & killed”.

Two questions are relevant here. Do Christians & Southerners have the right to be Minister of the Federal Capital Territory & does Nigeria have diplomatic relations with the State of Israel? If the answer to both are in the affirmative then I really do not understand what all the fuss is about.

I do not believe or subscribe to the erroneous notion that the Minister of the FCT is the exclusive preserve of Northern Muslims & neither do I believe that Nigeria, a nation with over 120 million Christians should EVER sever its diplomatic ties with the State of Israel. A Christian cannot head the FCT because it is in the North but a Muslim can head NNPC whose oil is in the South?

Is this not warped logic? As a Pastor friend of mine asked “are we not mad in this country?” Gumi also said Christians always kill Muslim leaders when they are in power and when they have the opportunity to do so.

He said that power should not have been given to the South earlier this year and expressed the view that if this had to be so there should have been concrete security guarantees from the new order that all Northern Muslims would remain safe and not be butchered.

This assertion betrays the fact that he and those he represents do not regard our President as a Muslim. That is the implication of what he has said. Worse still, deep down, those that think like him do not regard any Yoruba or Southern Muslim as a real one. That is the pitiful and shallow level of their ignorance, bigotry and effontry.

He went on to indulge in a mischievous & nonsensical journey of historical revisionism making all sorts of wild and inaccurate claims. He said Nigeria was safer when Muslims were in power & when they controlled the guns & that Christians cannot be trusted with power.

At this point I really do wonder whether this man is above the law & I am amazed at the fact that he has not been arrested. Can any Christian leader talk to his flock from the pulpit like that about Muslims without being arrested?

He said so many other explosive & 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 that 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 Muslim!

Quite apart from that he alleged that President Jonathan was responsible for the brutal murder of General Mohammed Shuwa who was gunned down in his own home by Boko Haram and that he was in full control of the terrorists and responsible for all the atrocities they committed when he was in power.

Those who managed to stomach
reading his nauseating gobbledegook can testify to its toxiticy & subversive intent. The question needs to be asked: is this man well in the head? Is he mentally stable? Is he suffering from mental illness? Are his crumbling mental faculties still intact or has he totally lost his already fragile mind?

Needless to say I have always despised him & I have always known that there is something dark & sinister about his more than cosy relationship with the bloodthirsty & heartless ISWAP & Boko Haram terrorists that have plagued our nation but now I have cause to question his sanity as well.

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 (bandits) are our people. So please vote for those who, after attaining power, will call & negotiate with our people (bandits) so as to give them what they want for peace to reign”.

Swap the word “bandits” for “terrorists” and you will really appreciate what this deluded and dangerous man represents & stands for. Attempting to draw from his shallow knowledge of the military & its history as an unaccomplished & sacked Major from the Medical Corps of the Nigerian Army he made reference to Christians killing Muslim leaders in various military coups.

He mentioned the fact that Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sir Tafawa Balewa & other Muslim leaders were killed by mutinous Christian soldiers on the night of January 15th 1966. 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 & many other Christian political leaders & military officers were killed by the same people on the same night.

He failed to mention the fact that the mutinous soldiers, led by Major Emmanuel Ifejuana & Major Kaduna Nzeogwu murdered BOTH Christian & Muslim leaders on that terrible night. He refused to acknowledge the fact that it was not only Muslim leaders that were targetted. Even though it is true that the Jan 15th 1966 coup was primarily a Christian one it is also true that it was crushed and aborted by primarily Christian officers like Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon, Captain Paul Tarfa, Lt. Col. T. Y. Danjuma, Lt. Col. Martins Adamu and so many others.

In the Northern Officers revenge coup of July 29th 1966 which came 6 months later, 300 Christian Igbo officers were killed together with a Christian Head of State, General Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi & a Christian Governor of the old Western Region, General Adekunle Fajuyi. This “revenge coup” was led by Northern officers of both Christian & 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. IBM Haruna, Lt. Ibrahim Abacha & others.

He said Christians killed the Head of State, General Murtala Ramat Muhammed, in the 1976 Dimka coup but he forgot to mention the fact that Lt. Col. A.R. Aliyu, Lt. Col. T.K. Adamu, Lt. A. B. Umaru, Capt. A. A. Aliyu, Lt. Mohammed & a number of other Muslims were also involved in the execution of that coup & that Christian officers like Lt. Akintunde Akinsehinwa were also killed by the plotters. However if he insists on arguing that the 1976 coup was a Christian coup then he must conceed the fact that the officers that thwarted it were also mainly Christian & were led by General T. Y. Danjuma, the then Chief of Army Staff.

He said only Christians are involved in coups in which blood is shed forgetting that the 1983 coup which removed President Shehu Shagari from power & brought General Muhammadu Buhari to power & in which one of the master minds, Brigadier Ibrahim Bako, was mysteriously shot in the back of the head by one of his own fellow coup plotters whilst attempting to arrest the President was not planned, organised, led or effected by primarily Christian officers.

Most of the key planners and senior officers involved in that mutiny including General Ibrahim Babangida, General Sani Abacha, General Tunde Idiagbon, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and many others happened to be Muslim and sadly during the course of the event blood was shed.

Coming to the April 22nd 1990 coup which was led by Major Gideon Orkar, Lt. Col. Tony Nyiam, Major Saliba Daddy Mukoro, Captain Victor Tolofari and others and in which they attempted to remove the Head of State, General Ibrahim Babangida, from power there is no doubt that it was indeed a Christian coup and indeed much blood was shed.

However it must again be conceeded that it was also foiled by primarily Christian officers led by Major General Joshua Dogonyaro, Brigadier General David Mark, Brigadier General Tunde Ogbeha, Brigadier General John Shagaya, Colonel Ishaya Bamayi, Colonel John Yahaya Madaki, Lt. Colonel Gideon Zidion, Major Jonathan Temlong and so many others.

The dark forces that Ahmad Gumi, his father Abubakar Gumi and those that think like them represent have little to do with the great and compassionate faith of Islam which insists on equity, justice, tolerance, submission to the will of God and peace.

tishbite42:
The only good thing about this man is his way with words and his negative eloquence
He really attended London and Cambridge

Racoon:
Hehehe! After boldly standing against the muslim muslim ticket before turning around because of political correctness and survival to support same? These fellas always think they average Nigerian is a fool they can manipulate always. Femi Fani-Kayode is back to his default mode.

Racoon:
https://femifanikayode.org/ahmad-gumi-cleric-of-blood-face-of-hate/

Tallesty1:
Keep lying.

There is nothing like tolerance, equity, justice or peace in Islam.


Islam is fighting every other religion in the world including Islam.