2023: I pity incoming Nigeria President -Gumi

From: Femi Oyelola, Kaduna

Nigeria is suffering from disabling diseases under the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) led administration and pitied for the next President, a renowned Kaduna based Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Abubakar Gumi has said.

Sheikh Gumi in an article he wrote, insisted that  Nigeria is suffering from triple diseases, ranging from Leprosy, Diabetes and HIV AIDS.

According to him “the next president needs to be intelligent and supported by men with acumen not the ‘garagra’ person with an impulsive temperament that is after the praise of sentimental citizens. He has to act quickly and carefully. He has to center his efforts and concentration inwards not outside”.

He adds “I know a lot of our problems have roots in foreign interests, yet local problems must be solved locally.

“The economy is in such disarray that it needs a true nationalist that will institute measures even if they are against these ‘fake’ corporate bodies that are Dracula sucking the blood out of the nation.

“Not the kind of ineffective, but detrimental measures of our experience in the past, but well-studied economic measures that will not only increase the GPD but raise the per capita income of the individuals. Today in Nigeria, the middle-class income strata are almost effaced. You are either poor or extremely rich.”

While likening Nigeria to the three dangerous diseases, he said “In a metaphorical sense, the nation is suffering from three main disabling diseases. They are Leprosy, Diabetes, and HIV AIDs, all in one body.

“In leprosy, a disease that attacks the sensory nervous system, the brain is unaware of the suffering of the extremities. The presidency, which represents the brain, is not getting the true picture of the grassroots suffering and the excruciating poverty breaking the masses because the feedback system is attacked by corruption, wickedness, and immorality.

“In diabetes, there is abundant sugar produced in the body, but it’s not getting into the body tissues for metabolism and its excess is left in the bloodstream destroying vital organs. With HIV, the defence system is weakened to the extent that a small group of ragtag criminals can kill the nation and bring it to a halt”.

He further noted that the recent BBC Africa Eye documentary and daily Trust documentaries about the insurgency in Zamfara State have exposed the ethnic and tribal undertones as the real genesis of the decade mayhem the North Western region is experiencing as a whole.

He averred that “the crimes were committed by both sides of the divide, but unfortunately, the outside world sees one side as the only criminal, and thus the government acted in such a line of thinking, messing up the conflict and applying the wrong measures of communal conflict resolution.”

He however, warned that the next president must avoid listening to clerics who have no national integration at heart, adding that for a security solution, there is a need for a general overhaul to reflect the security challenges the nation is facing.

“The next president needs to be intelligent and supported by men with acumen, not the ‘garagara’ person with an impulsive temperament that is after the praise of sentimental citizens. He has to act quickly and carefully. He has to enter his efforts and concentration inwards not outside. I know a lot of our problems have roots in foreign interests, yet local problems must be solved locally.

“The president has to be careful of the dishonest clergy. Like mosquitoes, they feed on every system without adding any values except polarizing the nation more on the religious divide. I cannot imagine a nation facing insurgencies left, right, and centre, yet the clergy would fold their arms without intermediating to see for conflict resolutions. Rather, they are busy fueling religious polarization.

“The economy is in such disarray that it needs a true nationalist that will institute measures even if they are against these ‘fake’ corporate bodies that are Dracula sucking the blood out of the nation. Not the kind of ineffective, but detrimental measures our experience in the past.

“A well-studied economic measure that will not only increase the GPD but raise the per capita income of the individuals. Today in Nigeria, the middle-class income strata are almost effaced. You are either poor or extremely rich”, he stressed.