Adoki Tonye Smart, a representative for Port Harcourt 2 in the Rivers State House of Assembly, has criticized Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi for his remarks disparaging the Nigerian government and Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Sheik Gumi and his associates were forewarned by Tonye Smart to avoid making additional incendiary remarks and denigrating the South and Southerners.
The controversial Muslim cleric was cautioned by the lawmaker that the time of working with bandits and criminals to carry out kidnappings and demand ransoms was over in a statement made on Saturday in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State.
That day of organizing kidnappings and exchanging ransoms with bandits and other criminals was over, he declared. Some of these people from the North genuinely think they own this nation. It makes sense why they believed it was their right for a northerner to succeed another northerner.
For your knowledge, Gumi, that time has passed. A man who claims that his state contributes nothing to the nation sits and calls for Wike to be fired as the minister of the FCT after the Israeli ambassador to Nigeria was received in his office.
These bandit sympathizers can no longer keep their annoyances to themselves, even though we have been expecting this frustrating statement for a long time. Gumi was unable to continue for this reason and had to speak up.
“The money from NIGER DELTA is used to build and sustain FCT. Not that we’ve complained. You want to spend our money, but you oppose us serving as FCT Minister.