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Vanguard News Obasanjo, Gumi, others meet over insecurity On By James Ogunnaike The Kaduna based popular Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, on Sunday had a closed-door meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo at his Hilltop residence in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. A source present at the meeting told newsmen that the choice of Chief Obasanjo by Gumi was based on the fact that the former president is a critical stakeholder and a respected elder statesman to discuss with. Gumi briefed Obasanjo on his recent peace advocacy visits to the Fulani bandits in the North with the hope th...

Sheikh Ahmad Gumi led a delegation to former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Sunday, over the insecurity in Nigeria. They demanded that all persons bearing arms illegally must be punished and that special courts should be created to handle cases of banditry, kidnapping, among other crimes. On his entourage were Prof. Usman Yusuf, Mallam Tukur Mamu, Dr. Umar Ardo, Dr. Ibrahim Abdullahi, Honourable Suleiman Gumi, Alhaji Suleiman Yakubu and Mallam Buba Mohammed, Obasanjo received Gumi in the presence of Oba Babajide Bakre, Agura of Gbagura, Abeokuta; Bishop Tunde Akin-Aki...

He also accused the president of abandoning all those who helped him to the presidency in 2015 despite his swearing in 2011 when he lost the presidential election to former President Goodluck Jonathan that he will no longer contest in the presidential election again.