The Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has described the recent comments by the Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, against the Nigerian government and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, as an indirect poke on the Niger Delta and South-South regions of the country. The Forum said this while reacting to Gumi's comment that it was dangerous to entrust Nigeria’s national security to the hands of Christians and Southerners.