{"id":33045,"date":"2021-04-27T09:41:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T08:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=33045"},"modified":"2021-04-27T09:41:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T08:41:15","slug":"we-need-more-pantamis-in-power-sheikh-gumi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=33045","title":{"rendered":"We need more Pantamis in power &#8211; Sheikh Gumi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <strong>Adebola Ajayi (Peoples Gazette<\/strong>)<br \/><br \/>Islamic cleric Ahmad Gumi has warned that Nigerians will regret it if communication minister Isa Pantami is removed from office, saying the minister is \u201cstabilising the government among a section of youth.\u201d<br \/><br \/>Mr Pantami has come under heavy pressure to resign or be sacked since his past public declaration of support for terrorist groups al-Qaeda and the Taliban re-emerged into national discourse in the past ten days.<br \/><br \/>But Mr Gumi, a Kaduna-based Islamic preacher who has embarked on a self-imposed mediatory role between bandits ravaging parts of the North and the authorities maintained that Mr Pantami was not a terrorist sympathiser.<br \/><br \/>He said in an interview with Roots TV that the embattled minister was rather a nationbuilder who was working to attract other youths of his ilk to support the government.<br \/><br \/>\u201cShow me, one person, he has killed?\u201d Mr Gumi queried. \u201cHe has not killed anybody. He has not ordered the killing of anybody. The man is stabilising a government among a section of youth which we want them to come and join in nation-building.\u201d<br \/><br \/>The cleric\u2019s assertion however appears to contradict available facts. Media reports indicated that in 2004, a fatwa for the killing of Samuel Achi, a 400L student of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi was issued under the authority of Mr Pantami as the Chief Imam of the university\u2019s mosque.&nbsp;<br \/><br \/>Peoples Gazette had also exposed how Mr Pantami offered&nbsp;to lead Islamic fighters&nbsp;into a Christian dominated areas of Plateau State, following a religious clash in the 2000s.<br \/><br \/>Still, Mr Gumi who has been&nbsp;advocating for amnesty for bandits&nbsp;who have been terrorising citizens across northern states, says Mr Pantami was a victim of wicked campaigns to remove him from office.<br \/><br \/>\u201cAnd you people are fighting them. No. You should get more people like Pantami and put them in power. Don\u2019t remove him. You\u2019ll regret,\u201d Mr Gumi warned.<br \/><br \/>The Islamic cleric\u2019s stand tallies with that of the Nigerian presidency which claimed that Mr Pantami has not committed a grievous offence. Aso Villa insists Mr Pantami&nbsp;would not be sacked&nbsp;from office since he has apologised for his past pro-terrorism utterances, claiming he was young when he made those reckless takes.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u25aa\ufe0e By <strong>Peoplesgazette.com<\/strong><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adebola Ajayi (Peoples Gazette) Islamic cleric Ahmad Gumi has warned that Nigerians will regret it if communication minister Isa Pantami is removed from office, saying the minister is \u201cstabilising the government among a section of youth.\u201d Mr Pantami has come under heavy pressure to resign or be sacked since his past public declaration of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":31444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1628,3065,1389],"class_list":["post-33045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-gumi","tag-pantami","tag-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33045","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=33045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}