DON'T CONTEST 2015 ELECTIONS-SHEIKH GUMI TELLS BUHARI

Sheik Gumi's letter to General Buhari: What do
you think?
"MY CANDID NASIHA TO GEN. BUHARI.
Assalamu Alaikum
The Humble People’s General.
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 these 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 explains 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 incasserate 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 Ameachi or Okorocha/Kwankwaso or
Elrufai 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 orchestered 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.