Deji Adeyanju Calls For Arrest Of Sheikh Gumi Over Alleged Banditry Comments

Activist lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, has called on the federal government to immediately arrest controversial Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi, over alleged inflammatory comments on the country’s worsening security crisis.

Adeyanju made the call on Wednesday after a viral video circulated online in which Gumi was alleged to have defended bandits and Fulani herders.

In the video, the cleric was heard saying that Fulani herders are “part of us and we are part of them,” adding that Nigerians must learn to live with them.

Reacting in a post on his Facebook page, Adeyanju argued that anyone who sympathises with terrorists should be treated as a terrorist.

According to him, only a failed state would allow people making such comments to operate freely without consequences.

“People like Gumi can only survive in a country without a government. Terrorists sympathizers are terrorists,” he wrote.

Adeyanju further alleged that Gumi’s comments and actions promote terrorism in Nigeria and urged the authorities to arrest him as a deterrent to others.