Controversial preacher, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has urged Northerners not to vote for politicians that will not negotiate with terrorists.
According to the cleric, bandits are warriors who shouldn’t be killed but negotiated with.
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The Islamic cleric disclosed this during one of his recent sermons.
He said: “Don’t vote for those who will fight bandits. The fighters are our warriors in the forest……. Our people in the forest.
So vote for those who after attaining power will call and negotiate with our people (bandits) so as to give them what they want for peace to reign.”
Gumi has over the years been accused of ‘sympathizing’ with bandits, who have brought untold hardship on families and communities through their violent onslaught, kidnappings for ransom, and mindless killings, but he has denied that.
Rather, he said his concern is for his country, his state, and humanity which made him advocate peaceful dialogue with the bandits.
