THE ALTERNATIVE With Reno Omokri
Sheikh Abubakar Mahmud Gumi was well known to Nigerians in the 70s and 80s as an extremist Izala Islamic cleric, who had attracted controversy for his views that only Muslims could best rule Nigeria, amongst other sectional views.
It might shock some Nigerians to note that that Sheikh Gumi once publicly called for Muslims to accept only Muslim political leaders (a view once publicly shared by President Muhammadu Buhari).
Sheikh Gumi was a strong Wahabbist and never hid the influence that Saudi Arabia had over him. I would not want to go too much into detail about some of the more outrageous and alarming views held by Sheikh Gumi, in order not to speak ill of the dead.
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Published 24 February 2021
Apostle Johnson Suleman of Omega Fire Ministries was in the eye of a storm created by Ms Stephanie Otobo who alleged that he promised to marry her, took drinks and gifts to her family house to ask for her hand in marriage, reneged after she got pregnant and did something to make her lose the pregnancy.
She added that the Apostle sent money into her bank account and went on a rendezvous with her to Napoli in Italy. Her father denied the marriage proposal and her mother offered a public apology for any embarrassment that her daughter might have caused the Apostle.