By Kingston Magare 2.11.2025
Popular Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has urged President Bola Tinubu to consider cutting diplomatic ties with the United States of America following threats by President Donald Trump to send his military after terrorists in operating in the country.
Trump on Sunday told his department of war to prepare for likely hood of an action against terror gangs he alleged were killing Christians in Nigeria. Sheikh Gumi writing on his Facebook platform Sunday said Tinubu should immediately summon the US ambassador to Nigeria to explain Trump’s outburst.
“For Trump to threaten a sovereign nation with military attack is a profound disrespect to our authority, but we can rise above it,” Sheikh Gumi stated.
“President Tinubu should summon the U.S. ambassador. They should either withdraw their threats or we cut diplomatic relations with this irresponsible regime.
“There are many other options for economic expansion and military alliances,” Gumi added.
Trump posted on Friday, without evidence, that “thousands of Christians are being killed (and) Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter.”
Conservative politicians have fueled the accusations.
In March, US congressman Chris Smith called for Nigeria to be listed by the State Department as a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) — a move announced by Trump on Friday over what he called an “existential threat” to the African nation’s Christian population.
President Tinubu and General Olufemi Oluyede