According to a top security operative, police detectives are
studying audio and video tapes of the sermons in which Kaduna-based
Islamic cleric, Sheik Ahmad Gumi, asserted that the late governor of
Kaduna State, Mr. Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa perished along with former
National Security Adviser, General Andrew Azazi while strategizing
against Northern Nigerian Muslims.
Gumi allegedly affirmed that Yakowa had been engaging in an
anti-Muslim agenda, and that it was therefore necessary to avoid the
emergence of non-Muslims as governor of Kaduna State in the future, a
point that some senior citizens of Kaduna State raised in a detailed
memo in which they expressed concern that Gumi’s weekly sermon was
likely to cause serious ethno-religious crisis in Kaduna town.
According
to the source, the eminent personalities from Kaduna are of the view in
view of the volatile nature of Kaduna State, urgent intervention and
consultation has become necessary.
"The prominent people from
Kaduna State wrote the memo, and included it with audio and video tapes
of
Gumi’s preaching," the source continued. "Gumi in one of the tapes
indeed said that Yakowa and Azazi died while meeting on anti-Muslim
issues. He was also heard in the tape saying that it was a plan with
General Gowon using the burial in Bayelsa as a cover up for them to meet
and that is why Yakowa followed Azazi alone without his ADC.
"Gumi
in the audio tape also said that the Muslims of Kaduna State should
never allow a situation that will bring about a non-Muslim to be
governor, alluding to the fact that it was Allah that did this crash for
the impending danger being planned against Muslims."
He said the
Kaduna personalities who wrote the petition want action to be taken
against any clerics, Muslim or Christian, who preach incitement and
hate.
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