By Ishaya Ibrahim
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has descended on controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, over his remark that Muslim security chiefs were more humane than their Christian counterparts.
Fani-Kayode, also known as FFK, in a post on X, Sunday, said Gumi can best be described as a man with ‘perfect hate.’
FFK said there are chances some forces of darkness were behind Gumi’s activities. He asked Nigeria’s security agencies to take note of the cleric before he threw Nigeria into chaos.
He said: “It is clear that there are some hidden yet sinister and dark forces both within and outside Nigeria that are behind this evil man and that are encouraging him to continue to tread this reckless and dangerous course.”
FFK said Gumi has deep hatred for Christians, Middle-Belters and Southerners, hence, his inciting, provocative, dangerous, subversive and unrelenting sermons.
Fani-Kayode said as an unapologetic Christian, he supported the Muslim-Muslim ticket, because he believed religion had no place in politics and that competence was the relevant factor when it came to leadership.
FFK regretted that people like Gumi have been brooding hate, the kind that made Hamas to unleash its unadulterated savagery on the people of Israel on October 7th.
He said Gumi is continuing from where his father, the late Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi, left off. The senior Gumi, who declared Nigeria an Islamic state and swore that a Christian would never rule the country in his lifetime, died in 1992. FFK said one year later, a Christian, Ernest Shonekan, became Nigeria’s president.
