Wike, Tinubu: We cannot fold our arms and allow Gumi to heat up the polity through his careless, destructive, and inciting statements – Sunday Igboho

Yoruba Nation Agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Igboho, has warned Islamic scholar Ahmad Gumi about his inflammatory statements and sermons. Igboho firmly stated that he wouldn’t stand by and let Gumi contribute to political unrest in Nigeria with potentially divisive speeches.

Gumi had claimed that Christians couldn’t be trusted with Nigeria’s security and called for the removal of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike. This call came after Wike’s meeting with an Israeli envoy to discuss Abuja’s security.

Gumi also accused President Bola Tinubu of appointing Southern Christians to significant positions and suggested that the current administration might not secure a second term.

In response, Igboho criticized Gumi, alleging that the scholar was attempting to renew his contract for negotiating with bandits under President Bola Tinubu’s administration.

A statement he signed reads partly: “We know Gumi’s pedigree and his antics. Before the advent of Tinubu, individuals like him should have been explaining their roles to the security agencies on the festering insurgency in the northern parts of the country.

“While we will continue to advocate for an egalitarian society, we cannot fold our arms and allow Gumi to heat up the polity through his careless, destructive and inciting statements via his preachings. Nigeria’s security as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution, must not be abused by anybody no matter how highly or lowly placed.

“We are not advocates for the Federal Government, but we remain part of critical stakeholders in Nigeria’s project, hence the need to drum sanity and decorum into the ears of anybody with traces of tendencies for religious fanaticism.

“For peace to reign supreme, it is incumbent on all and sundry to desist from any act that triggers mutual suspicion, distrust and needless crisis among Nigerians.”