Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has alleged that he was alerted by security sources that his name had surfaced on a list of individuals purportedly targeted for elimination as alleged Boko Haram figures.
Gumi made the disclosure while speaking to worshippers in a video that has since gone viral.
He said he received an early-morning call from an unidentified contact in Abuja, who informed him that discussions at a security meeting had included his name.
“They called me from Abuja and told me there was a security meeting. They said I have been marked, that I will be eliminated. And who are Boko Haram?” Gumi queried.
According to the cleric, the caller warned that he had been singled out among persons allegedly identified for assassination, a development he described as alarming.
Gumi also challenged prevailing narratives around terrorism, arguing that powerful global actors were behind the creation of insurgent groups.
“Even Americans said they came to fight terrorists, so who are the terrorists? They are the ones,” he said, directly accusing the United States of contributing to the emergence of Boko Haram.
He further claimed that Nigeria’s deepening insecurity and widening social fault lines were being aggravated by foreign influence and political narratives which he linked to United States President Donald Trump.
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The cleric faulted Nigeria’s political and religious leadership for what he described as their silence and inaction as the country descended further into crisis.
He alleged that foreign-backed funding and propaganda had falsely framed Christians as the exclusive victims of insecurity, a move he said was deliberately designed to inflame religious tensions and erode trust among Nigerians.
“Because of lies, you brought violence. But where are the leaders? What did they do? What about the scholars? Everyone has gone to hide in their corners.”
Gumi warned that no independent nation should tolerate external interference aimed at dividing its citizens along religious or social lines, insisting such actions threaten national cohesion.
“Which country would agree to bring something in just to divide its people? Either you bring all of us together, or you hold us and hand us over to them.”
He accused both political and religious elites of abandoning meaningful engagement, leaving the country mired in what he described as empty rhetoric rather than practical solutions, even as hardship, oppression and denial of rights intensified.
According to him, fear-driven silence and deepening divisions were pushing Nigeria further into turmoil, cautioning that continued inaction by leaders and scholars would only worsen the nation’s predicament.
“This is the kind of situation we are in. It is dragging the country down,” he added.
