₦airaland Forum

According to the cleric, bandits are warriors who shouldn’t be killed but negotiated with.
The Islamic cleric disclosed this during one of his recent sermons.

“Don't vote for those who will fight bandits. The fighters are our warriors in the forest……. Our people in the forest.

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

Gumi is known for visiting bandits in the forest in an attempt to negotiate a peace deal with them.

The controversial Islamic cleric had met with some suspected terrorists in the forests of Zamfara and Kaduna states.

He has asked the Nigerian government several times to grant amnesty to bandits as it gave to Niger Delta militants.

According to the cleric, military action against criminal herdsmen and bandits will not solve the security challenge, but “will only worsen the situation”.

He also said no military, especially in a poor economy can win guerrilla warfare, citing the recent victory of the Taliban in Afghanistan as an example.

The controversial Islamic scholar added that the government should spend billions of naira on building schools for terrorists and bandits instead of spending on security hardware.

Mykellio:
I am a survivor.

Lived in Angwan Doma, Kaduna South until January 2021.

Got attacked in my house at 2am, November 29, 2020 Sunday.

Gang of five heavily armed. My saving grace was money I had at home. And my devices that were off due to power outage. They took all.

Still they resolved to lock me in the bathroom of my masters ensuite bedroom and open fire on the door.

God on my side, I was on my knees. I wasn't hit.

1st police team came at dawn. Packed all the cartridges.

2nd police team came 30mins after the first to ask me questions.

They said I should bring ngn500k to track and recover funds and devices. Me that was still traumatised. I declined. They said O.Y.O for me. I said I have heard.

Long story short, someone advised me to lay low or leave the country.

I changed residence to Angwan Bijeh close to Gonin Gora. By June 3, 2021 the residence was again attacked. My neighbor was killed.

I spent the whole of 2021 treating PTSD.

I hope those who said I exaggerated my ordeal can see the brute force, resilence and maniacal heartlessness this Fulanis operate with.

I won't be able to post pictures.

If you're a Christian living in Kaduna state.

Hold God tight. Be security-conscious.

Mykellio:
I am a survivor.

Lived in Angwan Doma, Kaduna South until January 2021.

Got attacked in my house at 2am, November 29, 2020 Sunday.

Gang of five heavily armed. My saving grace was money I had at home. And my devices that were off due to power outage. They took all.

Still they resolved to lock me in the bathroom of my masters ensuite bedroom and open fire on the door.

God on my side, I was on my knees. I wasn't hit.

1st police team came at dawn. Packed all the cartridges.

2nd police team came 30mins after the first to ask me questions.

They said I should bring ngn500k to track and recover funds and devices. Me that was still traumatised. I declined. They said O.Y.O for me. I said I have heard.

Long story short, someone advised me to lay low or leave the country.

I changed residence to Angwan Bijeh close to Gonin Gora. By June 3, 2021 the residence was again attacked. My neighbor was killed.

I spent the whole of 2021 treating PTSD.

I hope those who said I exaggerated my ordeal can see the brute force, resilence and maniacal heartlessness this Fulanis operate with.

I won't be able to post pictures.

If you're a Christian living in Kaduna state.

Hold God tight. Be security-conscious.

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has said that the ruling All Progressives Congress is more corrupt than the Peoples Democratic Party, as of the time it was in charge of the country.

He revealed this in an interview with Voice of America, part of which he shared on his Twitter handle on Sunday.

When told that people also accused the PDP of corruption at the time it was ruling, Atiku responded, “But we have come to realise that the APC is even more corrupt than PDP.”

Asked how he will convince voters to support PDP again, he said, “Well, I will remind them of the prosperity that the PDP brought to the country between 1999-2007 and then also the poverty, the insecurity, the instability that the APC has brought to the country since they came into office.”

Naira Redesign: Sowore Mocks Dino Melaye For Donating Cash

The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, has mocked the spokesperson for the presidential campaign of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dino Melaye, following a cash donation the latter made to a foundation, linking it to the announced redesign of Naira notes.

The incident happened during the memorial service/evening of tributes for late human rights activist, Ariyo Dare-Atoye, on Saturday.

Making a pledge of a N500, 000 annual donation to an education fund for the deceased’s children, Melaye said, “They told me that there is a plan for a foundation, education foundation for the children, I am so impressed about that and I am making a pledge that I will give an annual donation of N500, 000 for that foundation and I brought the first part of it, N500, 000.”

Reacting to Melaye's donation, Sowore, who took the podium next said, "You can already see the effect of the Central Bank’s re-designation (sic), politicians are carrying cash. Let me say this, this is the political season and I am not here for politics.”

Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has stated the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Iyorchia Ayu lacks the capacity to lead the party to victory in 2023.

The Governor said no amount of blackmail and abuses against them would make his group back down on the demand the chairmanship of the party must be ceded to the South before the 2023 polls.

Wike spoke on Tuesday at the Government House in Port Harcourt when the management of New Telegraph Newspaper led by the Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief, Ayodele Aminu presented its letter nominating him as the political icon of the year.

A statement by the Governor’s Special Assistant, Media, Kelvin Ebiri, said Wike observed that the PDP was marginalising a section of the country.

Wike said because the zoning principle had been jettisoned in the PDP with the lack of seriousness to allow for inclusivity, convincing Nigerians to believe that the party could rescue the country was becoming a more difficult task.

He said Ayu had promised to resign his position should the presidential candidate of the party emerge from the north.

The Governor reaffirmed that his allies had resolved to continue the demand for the return of the national chairmanship position to the south.

Wike maintained his allegation that Dr. Ayu was corrupt because he had not been able to account for the N11bn realised from the party’s primary and N100million he got from a Governor.

He said: “He made that commitment because he knows that it will not be equitable, there will be no fairness and justice if the presidential candidate comes from the same zone as him. And people are trivialising the issue. Why do you trivialise the issue?”

“If you like abuse us the way you want to abuse us but we will stand by what we have said. If you say you will not relinquish that position to the South, no problems.

“Go ahead, but you can’t force us to do what we think is not right, we will not do it. So, this kind of man cannot, in all honesty, take this party to any victory. He cannot.”

Wike berated Mr. Dele Momodu, a former presidential aspirant of the PDP, for trivialising the issues affecting the party and seeking cheap recognition.

He said: “All these professional praise singers and beggars who have nothing to offer just to rally round the presidential candidate, looking for what they will eat, are beginning to abuse people.

“Those, who even contested the primary without one vote are those who are talking. A presidential aspirant becoming a spokesperson to a presidential candidate."

Rikze:
Hmmm