Sheik Gumi on the verge of being arrested

Police detectives are studying audio and video tapes of the sermons in
which Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheik Ahmad Gumi, asserted that the
late governor of Kaduna State, Mr. Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa perished
along with former National Security Adviser, General Andrew Azazi
while strategizing against Northern Nigerian Muslims, a top security
operative has told SaharaReporters.


Gumi allegedly affirmed that Yakowa had been engaging in an
anti-Muslimagenda, and that it was therefore necessary to avoid the
emergence of non-Muslims as governor of Kaduna State in the future, a
point that some senior citizens of Kaduna State raised in a detailed
memo in which they expressed concern that Gumi's weekly sermon was
likely to cause serious ethno-religious crisis in Kaduna town.


According to the source, the eminentpersonalities from Kaduna are of
the view in view of the volatile nature of Kaduna State, urgent
intervention and consultation has become necessary.
"The prominent people from Kaduna State wrote the memo, and included
it with audio and video tapes of Gumi's preaching," the source
continued. Gumi in one of the tapes, which I will give you the
Internet link, indeed said that Yakowa and Azazi died while meeting on
anti-Muslim issues. He was also heard in the tape saying that, it was
a plan with General Gowon using theburial in Bayelsa as a cover up for
them to meet and that is why Yakowa followed Azazi alone without his
ADC. Gumi in the audio tape also said that the Muslims of Kaduna State
should never allow a situation that will bring about a non-Muslim to
be governor, alluding to the fact that it was Allah that did this
(crash) for the impending danger being planned against Muslims."


He said the Kaduna personalities who wrote the petition want action to
be taken against any clerics, Muslim or Christian, who preach
incitement and hate.