Famous Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has been taken to the cleaners by PAN Niger-Delta Forum (PANDEF).
National Publicity Secretary, PANDEF, Ken Robinson said;
“It is unfortunate that the nation should be hearing one absurd statement or the other from this man, every day. It is high time that the media stopped giving him attention. He is nothing other than an eccentric bigot, a paladin of marauders and murderers, dressed in cleric’s toga.”
“It is vexing that he would have the effrontery to say Fulani herders are not criminals but militants fighting for ‘their ethnic survival’. What nonsense in a hitherto illustrious country reduced to almost a Lilliputian Republic by a Fulani president.”
“Nigeria has never experienced the kind of nepotism and prejudice being perpetrated under the Buhari administration, in a constitutional democracy.”
“Virtually all strategic positions in the nation’s public sector, including the military, paramilitary and intelligence agencies are firmly under Hausa-Fulani hegemony.”
“Oil blocks and marginal fields in the Niger Delta have been mostly exploited by northerners. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has become a ‘grazing’ ground for a few.”
“In the last four years, several eminent Nigerians, across the country, including patriotic Northerners, have spoken out against the skewed and lopsided nature of appointments by Mr President.”
“As we speak, PANDEF national leader and distinguished elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark and 15 other eminent Nigerians are in court over the several violations of the Federal Character Act.”
“But the administration continues to play deaf and dumb to the protestations and genuine concerns put forward by well-meaning Nigerians, in the interest of peace, equity and justice.”
“Look at the recent appointments made by the President for the headship of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC; the Nigerian Correctional Service, formerly Nigerian Prison Service, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.”
“And in the face of these irking circumstances, a so-called Sheikh Gumi could imagine asserting killer- herders are fighting for their ethnic survival. It then becomes necessary to reckon that the rest of Nigeria needs to be on the alert.”