By METROWATCH Reporter
Youths in the Northern part of Nigeria, under the aegis of the Northern Youths Movement (NYM) have described as dangerous, the latest attack on the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, by Kaduna-based Islamic scholar, Ahmad Gumi and one Sheikh Adam
Abdullahi.
The youths described Gumi’s comment that “Christians cannot be trusted with security in the country” as highly irresponsible and capable of setting Christians in the North against their Muslim brothers and sisters, warning that “Gumi and his likes should stop presenting
Northern Muslims as unreasonable people that do not see others as equal stakeholders in the project Nigeria.”
They asked; all the time that Northern Muslims were in charge of security in Nigeria, including being the President, did that stop terrorists and bandits from killing people in the North, including Muslims?
In a statement after the NYM meeting in Abuja on Friday, which was signed by its Chairman, Mallam Ishaya Jato, the youths affirmed that Gumi and a certain Sheikh Adam Abdullahi, who earlier released a video saying that Abuja was for the Arewa and that a Christian must not be
FCT Minister, only spoke for themselves.
They said it was funny that these same people masquerading as defenders of the North raised no finger over the neglect of the Gbagyi people, who are the indigenous inhabitants of Abuja and other ethnic
groups like Bassa, Gwandara, Gade, Dibo, Egburra, Nupe and Koro, in the running of the affairs of the FCT.
Has any Gbagyi person been appointed as FCT Minister before? Or the indigenous owners of Abuja are not entitled to the ministerial position too? And are the Gbagyi people not predominantly Christians?
We want to place it on record that Gumi and Sheikh Adam Abdullahi only spoke for themselves and to advance their personal interest, not for the entire Muslims in the Northern Nigeria.
Fact is that the Northern Nigeria is not exclusively for the Muslims, there are Christians as well and all these selfish old men should desist from promoting division among Nigerians just to advance their personal interests.
Most importantly, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria is not the birthright of any region or religion. Rather, it is a position for all Nigerians just as other ministerial positions.
Any Northerner complaining about a Christian from the Southern part of Nigeria occupying the position of FCT Minister, 44 years after Ajose Adeogun, from the South West occupied the position is only being parochial and selfish and such person is not speaking for us in the
North.
