Right up right up until big date, a great Northerner has been the brand new GMD from NNPCL
His eyebrows drawn to one another within the fury and you may rage regarding most un-presidential appointment away from an infidel in order to a career which will appropriately get into an effective Muslim, Gumi’s sent hand appeared owing to you to definitely personal pronouncement treated into the presidency particularly and you can Nigerians as a whole. In the event the Chairman Tinubu fails to dump Wike due to the fact FCT minister, there is difficulties not only toward Southern area Religious minister but also for the newest president himself. And something of effects of such refusal, Gumi noticable almost like good fatwa (yet another mutual trait towards Iranian mullahs) will be denial off another term so you’re able to Tinubu.
“Gumi’s attacks have been unprovoked, harmful, inciting and a deliberate misinterpretation of one’s history,” thundered new North east Consolidated Individuals Message board (NCPF) via a statement using their spokesman Alhaji Abba Liman. Gumi’s sermon in the mosque was originating from “misguided factors in addition to their sponsors to end up in disaffection and you may disunity in the nation.” The speech “does not depict the brand new cumulative examine and you will notice of the North, and definitely not Nigeria’s interest.”
The utterance is poisonous therefore shouldn’t be approved of the one decent and sound-oriented individual that enjoys serenity and you will our Nigeria
Day in advance of, Yekeen Nabena, previous deputy federal visibility secretary of all the Progressives Congress thought Gumi had gone too far along with his unprovoked assault to the Wike, saying one to “particular Northerners’ feeling of entitlement isn’t just dividing the nation however, which makes them select Southerners as the inferior compared to them within the an effective nation in which everyone is meant to have equal rights. The individuals off Niger Delta and you may Southerners in general tend to no offered fold their fingers as the enjoys out of Sheik Gumi saliva on their faces irrespective of political or religious beliefs.”