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.
Read excerpt of the Sheikh
Gumi’s open letter below:
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,
Courtesy: informationng.com
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