A Well-known Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has expressed his
opinion on Buhari’s intention to run against President Goodluck Jonathan
in the upcoming elections, SaharaReporters reports.
The son of late famous Sheikh Abubakar Gumi, said on Tuesday morning,
that he believes there will be severe implications if the ex head of
state continues on his ambition to be the next president. Sheikh Gumi
wrote an open letter to this effect.
Several supporters of Buhari have criticised Gumi over a letter he wrote on Goodluck and Buhari titled: The Second Round Of Goodluck Vs Buhari: A Source Of Apprehension’. Nigerians reportedly accused him of jealousy and hatred for Buhari.
I know I have access to your privy but this is meant for others to learn also.
The prophet -peace be upon him- told one of the most honest and
truthful of his companions Abu Zar Algafary: “oh Abu Zar, I truly love
for you what I love for myself. I indeed see that you are weak so never
accept to lead even two people and never accept safekeeping of the
orphans wealth’
An honest and candid advice from the prophet that is still valid
today for any leader who’s weakness borders on leadership qualities.
The reason for Abu Zar’s weakness has nothing to do with his
credibility or truthfulness. Never! The prophet was narrated as saying:
“there is nobody under the shadows of trees or bare sun that is more
honest in speech than Abu Zar”
Abu Zar – May Allah be pleased with him- is ascetic and
inmaterialistic. Abu Zar is incorruptible. And yet he is not suitable
for leadership.
I am not claiming to be even by an atom’s weight anything close
to our noble prophet, yet I am encouraged to give you this same advice
by the virtue that you are not also close to Abu Zar in piety. We are
living in a time of great tribulations and fitnah especially for this
Ummah because of our collective iniquities, ignorance of religious
instructions and the love of Dunyah.
Sir, your weakness is not in your past impeccable record of
accountability of public wealth and the fight against corruption and
indispiline. Your weakness is in your inability to control men
compounded further by your strict and obsessive rejection of corruption.
Don’t be surprised. You may need to understand that Islam being a
pragmatic religion allows the use of Zakkat and public wealth as an
instrument to pacify and lure influential people for the sake of
rightouness, peace and stability. In modern governance today it
translate into the security vote.
Thus men are also controlled by money. So if your policy of
governance is obsessibly centered on sealing tight the use of money you
will have great problem with men. An Arab poet said: “a fool cannot be
the leader of his people but the true leader of the people must feign
foolishness”.
It’s convenient for your ardent supporters to quote copiously
from the annals of history your great achievements but when your
failures and weaknesses were pointed out they say that was in the past.
Is the lessons of past history only good for the positive achievements?
Doesn’t that also explain our incessant failures?
Your Excellency, good intentions are never enough. In the past,
because of your clean records and straightforwardness you were lured by
men who want only the vanities Dunya to uproot a young democracy on the
caprices of fighting corruption. Corruption is no doubt an evil but
there is a more monstrous evil than corruption. That is turmoil and
insecurity. Peace and stability are the most important part of
governance that no price is to high for them.
The lack of peace, stability and security is the major
predicament of this nation since independence. So when you were naively
used by men to derail one, that is the greatest disservice you committed
to the nation the ills of which we are yet to recover from. Do you
truly believe Allah is still not in cognizance of that? You were lead to
uproot a duly elected leader and incrassate him for close to two years
knowing fully well that he has no charge of even the corruption that was
labeled against him. Yes, Shagari was the leader and therefore he bears
all the responsibility of misdeeds in his government, so also you were a
leader and you should bear all the responsibility of derailing the
peace and stability of governance in this country as a consequence of
that putsch.
You weakness in control of men became evident when the very
people that used you to revolt against a constituted authority came back
to uproot you from the seat of power. Your own kinsmen without a gun
cocked in your defense. Today the corruption you were deceived to fight
against has reached unimaginable level coupled with the worst state of
insecurity and peace in the nation. There was just recently an attempt
on your life like many of us.
All this because you the honest people that are given the
privilege of strengthening the Armed forces left it to meddle in
politics. We thus lost everything. Neither the power nor the security.
A believer is not stung from the same hole twice. Men used your
innocence before to get power and dump you. Please be sensible today.
Some other men still want to use you to get power and surely they will
dump you again. You don’t share the same philosophy at all. Even though
as I explained later, your obsession and philosophy of fighting
corruption is not the priority of Nigeria today. What Nigeria needs
utmost now is peace and stability. This can only be achieved when the
religious ethnic and regional divide is tamed. And you can only tame it
with people without much precedence. People without much following. Yet
people that are constructive and have the ability to control men.
If Sardauna today is alive in your situation he will never
contest for the presidential seat because of his deep understanding of
what the nation needs. He will step down for a more acceptable younger
person. It’s on record that Sardauna even at the age of under 60 said he
was not going to contest again preparing his only house in Rabah for
retirement.
I’ll give you a similitude to buttress my point of priority. A
person seriously injured and fractured from a road traffic accident when
brought to the emergency room, the first priority of the doctors is to
secure an intravenous line. Meaning get a drip set working into his
veins to protect his vital organs like the heart and kidneys from the
effects of shock and loss of blood. The fractures even though serious
and the source of the blood loss may take days and weeks before they are
even attended to beside the superficial dressings.
Nigeria now needs peace and stability first. Then we talk of good
governance later even though it’s the source of the predicament we are
facing.
The present government has already charged the situation and
played the religious divide to it’s advantage. It’s in circulation now, a
SW pastor calling on Christians and the church to vote Jonathan as
their only Savior. This religious card will be used to cover for his
deficiency in governance.
Your Excellency, you should understand too, that many if not most
of your supporters are also looking up to you to protect them from the
onslaught on their religion and region. This also the Christian will
never believe the otherwise. Therefore the stage is set for religious
confrontation which is the least the nation needs.
What we need as a priority is peace and stability.
From my view if APC can support as an example Amaechi or
Okorocha/Kwankwaso or El-Rufai or Tambuwwal ticket and the PDC will have
Ukpabio/Muazu or Ribadu or Shekaru, the next four years will. – insha
Allah – witness stability both in the north and south. And the electoral
body will get the necessary infrastructure that subsequently the next
election will be free and fair and the true reflection of Nigerians.
If you may ask, why can’t this same peace be achieved with you and another Christian running mate?
Gen. you have antagonist, and they are many and also as ardent as
your supporters. Your supporters have the biggest proportion of the
underprivileged of the society which is the petrol that can be easily
ignited by the slightest spark. The spark will be when you’re declared
the loser. And you know you can very well lose if the Christians follow
their church -and why not in this era of mediocrity.
On the other hand if Jonathan comes back. BH will be real not the
political one we see. The turmoil will engulf the whole country not
only the north. That is why I also call on PDP to present some other
candidates.
My Brother in Islam, please listen to the words of wisdom. And
don’t follow the whims of the riff raff. Before they used you the first
time to disrupt the second republic, my father advised you against it.
Today I am also advising you against contesting in the 2015 presidential
elections because you will be used to ignite the nation -a dream well
orchestrated several years ago- and also be used by bad people as a
ladder to grab regional and local powers.
I rest my case here.
My best regards and condolence to your recent loss.
May Allah guide you and protect you from the evil men and the jinn. Amin.
.................Ahmad Abubakar Mahmud Gumi
Kaduna,
It will record that Gumi’s previous article explains that a second
battle between Jonathan and Buhari will lead to severe ‘political
anaphylaxis’ that can lead to shock and ultimate death of the nation we
all aspire to live in.
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