Gumi’s public letter to Buhari was following reaction that
trailed his piece ‘The Second Round Of Goodluck Vs Buhari: A Source Of
Apprehension’ published by this medium on 18th October, 2014. Several
supporters of Buhari have criticised Gumi over his letter accusing him of
jealousy and hatred for Buhari.
The cleric, who insisted that he will not shy away from
speaking the truth, cautioned Buhari to be conscious of those surrounding him
for political gain.
See the letter below
Sections of the letter read as follows:
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.
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