{"id":31967,"date":"2021-03-15T10:44:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T09:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=31967"},"modified":"2021-03-15T10:44:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T09:44:30","slug":"shekau-berates-gumi-over-bandits-pantami-over-govt-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=31967","title":{"rendered":"Shekau berates Gumi over bandits; Pantami over govt job"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The leader of Boko Haram terrorists, Abubakar Shekau, has lambasted Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi, for negotiating with bandits.<br \/><br \/>Mr Gumi had recently embarked on a tour to armed bandits\u2019 hideouts in the forests to strike peace deal with the criminals.<br \/><br \/>The cleric\u2019s tour had drawn mixed reactions among Nigerians, with many, including the governor of Kaduna State Nasir El-Rufai, condemning the move.<br \/><br \/>But in a one hour 55 minutes audio listened and partly transcribed by\u00a0DAILY NIGERIAN\u00a0reporter, the terrorists leader said Mr Gumi is among those who deliberately transgress.<br \/><br \/>\u201cOh Ya Ahmad Gumi! Oh Ahmad Gumi, now you are wandering around, addressing Fulanis, and thinking you are serving God.<br \/><br \/>\u201cJust because you are called doctor or sheikh? Woe unto you, Ahmad Gumi!<br \/><br \/>Quoting chapter 7:175 of the Qur\u2019an, the terrorists leader said of Mr Gumi: \u201cAnd relate to them O Prophet the story of the one to whom We gave Our signs, but he abandoned them, so Satan took hold of him, and he became a deviant.\u201d<br \/><br \/>Mr Shekau also faulted the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, who is a Muslim cleric, for joining a government under democratic setting.<br \/><br \/>\u201cTo you (Gumi) and others like Pantami, who is even a minister, huh? And still a cleric? Ask yourself! Oh clerics who savour the taste of power seasonings, ask yourselves!<br \/><br \/>\u201cYou all know democracy is the ideology of Jews and Christians, why didn\u2019t you leave government?<br \/><br \/>\u201cDespite knowing the truth, you are using the Qur\u2019an to preach democracy. Why this?\u201d<br \/><br \/>The Boko Haram leader concluded his message by issuing threats against a UK-based Nigerian lawyer and analyst at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, Bulama Bukarti.<br \/><br \/>\u201cSo they (Westerners) have kept you, and you think you have the right to speak against those fighting? Know that you can\u2019t speak against Allah,\u201d Mr Shekau concluded.<br \/><br \/>\u25aa\ufe0e By <strong>Daily Nigerian\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of Boko Haram terrorists, Abubakar Shekau, has lambasted Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi, for negotiating with bandits. Mr Gumi had recently embarked on a tour to armed bandits\u2019 hideouts in the forests to strike peace deal with the criminals. The cleric\u2019s tour had drawn mixed reactions among Nigerians, with many, including the governor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":31444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[1628,3065,1207],"class_list":["post-31967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith","tag-gumi","tag-pantami","tag-shekau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}