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Demands FG’s Immediate Cessation of Military Cooperation with US
- Safiu Kehinde
Controversial Nigerian Islamic clergyman, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has warned of imminent war in Nigeria with the air strike action carried out by the United States of America’s Department of War.
NPO Reported that the US President, Donald Trump, had in the early hours of Friday announced authorising the US Army to launch air strikes target at terrorists in the North West region.
This would be confirmed by the Federal Government who declared the air strike action a successful operation aimed at destabilising the terrorists’ groups in the region.
However, one of the air missiles had reported landed in Jamo village in Sokoto State.
This had attracted both commendation and condemnation from members of the public with some warning of the implications of the US military intervention in Nigeria.
Joining the dissenting voices was Sheikh Gumi who in a post on his Facebook handle on Friday.
Gumi challenged the moral justification of Donald Trump, stressing that the fight against terrorism should be done with clean, holy hands and not by the US President whose hands were allegedly stained with bloods of innocent children and adults- a reference to his support of Israel’s attacks on Palestinians.
The Islamic cleric warned that Trump’s involvement in Nigeria will attract anti-US forces who will throw Nigeria into a full-blown war which will linger for years.
While accusing the US of orchestrating the terrorism acts it claimed to be fighting, Gumi likened the air strike to the neo-Crusade war against Islam.
He charged the FG to cease its military cooperation with the US, stressing that the likes of China, Turkey, and Pakistan will offer better military assistance to Nigeria.
The statement read; Annihilating terrorists is an Islamic obligation. The Prophet – peace be upon him- wished he annihilated them.
“He said: “Should I live till they appear; I would kill them as the Kiing of the nation of ‘Ad.” Al-Bukhari and Muslim.
“This said, it should only be carried out by clean, holy hands, not by another terrorist whose hands are stained with the blend of hundreds of thousands of innocent children, women, and men just recently.
“This is the mistake Nigeria has made. Terrorists don’t fight terrorists in truth; they may only kill innocent people and have ulterior motives behind the drama of fighting ‘terror’.
“As a principle, no nation should allow its land to be a theater of war. And no nation should allow its neighbors to be their enemies.
“If Nigeria wants military assistance, China, Turkey, and Pakistan can do the job effectively.
“The US involvement in Nigeria will attract the real anti-US forces, making our land the theatre of war. The USA’s involvement in Nigeria, citing coming to ‘protect Christians’, will ultimately polarize our nation and infringe on our sovereignty.
“Nigeria should halt all military cooperation with the USA immediately because of its imperial tendencies worldwide and seek the help of those neutral countries mentioned. Nigerians are too educated to be played with.
“This is going to be a 2027 campaign discourse.
“Meanwhile, dropping a few bombs here and there cannot tackle the menace of terror; they need serious military on the ground, which, if we are serious, we have enough men to do that. We call on all villages affected to upload videos and pictures of any casualties involved.
“The attacks are symbolic of a harbinger neo-Crusade war against Islam.
“Attack on Sokoto, where 90% are Muslim with no imminent danger of terror, while the real throat is in Maiduguri and on a Christmas Eve, with the claim of protecting against Christian genocide, says a lot. We believe the terror is manufactured and sustained by the same people claiming to fight it. A word is enough for the wise!”