ABUJA: Inya (@inya01) and Ben200 (@Benjaminubiri) on the MIDDAY DIALOGUE The era of Letter-Writing is back o and here is a message from a Sheikh to a Rtd General, as captured in BLUEPRINT. Please Read: GUMI WRITES BUHARI WARNS HIM NOT TO RUN Kaduna-based Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Mahmud Gumi, yesterday wrote to former Head of State and one of the presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), warning him not to run for president. The cleric in the letter asked Buhari to be wary of politicians using his integrity and acceptability to achieve their political ends, in the guise of struggling for common good. Gumi in the letter also argued that Buhari should note that there is no sincerity in the country as corruption has worsened insecurity that Buhari narrowly escaped being killed. Parts of the letter dated October 21, 2014 read: “Sir, your weakness is not in your past impeccable record of accountability of public wealth and the fight against corruption and indiscipline. Your weakness is in your inability to control men compounded further by your strict and obsessive rejection of corruption. 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.” “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 incarcerate him for close to two years knowing full 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.” Gumi added: “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. “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. 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 take it with people without much precedence.” --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!! What do you make of the letter??? Your thoughts..................
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 11:14:58 +0000
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