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Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Nigerian Army has warned popular Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi and other \u201copinion merchants\u201d, to exercise restraint with their utterances.<\/p>\n

This was contained in a statement on Monday signed by Director, Army Public Relations, Mohammed Yerima.<\/p>\n

The Army said contrary to Gumi\u2019s statements to bandits recently that Christian soldiers were the ones killing the bandits, the Army does not deploy troops along religious or ethnic lines.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the Nigerian Army would not want to join issues with the respected Sheikh Ahmed Gumi, it is however important to restate that the Nigerian Army as national institution, does not deploy its troops along ethnic or religious lines.<\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, Sheikh Ahmed Gumi and other opinion merchants are please enjoined to exercise restraint not to drag the image and reputation of one of the most reliable national institutions to disrepute,\u201d the statement read in part.<\/p>\n

A clip emerged, in which the cleric \u201cwas seen telling bandits that soldiers involved in attacks against them were non-Muslims. Gumi further stated that they should be aware that soldiers are divided into Muslims and non-Muslims.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. The Nigerian Army has warned popular Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi and other \u201copinion merchants\u201d, to exercise restraint with their utterances. This was contained in a statement on Monday signed by Director, Army Public Relations, Mohammed Yerima. The Army said contrary to Gumi\u2019s statements to bandits recently that Christian soldiers were the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":38670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,254,258,2937],"class_list":["post-38671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerian-army","tag-sheikh-gumi"],"yoast_head":"\nNigerian Army issues strong warning to Sheikh Gumi over ethnic comments - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Nigerian Army has warned popular Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi and other \u201copinion merchants\u201d, to exercise restr ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-army-issues-strong-warning-to-sheikh-gumi-over-ethnic-comments\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigerian Army issues strong warning to Sheikh Gumi over ethnic comments\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Nigerian Army has warned popular Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi and other \u201copinion merchants\u201d, to exercise restr ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-army-issues-strong-warning-to-sheikh-gumi-over-ethnic-comments\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-03-09T14:43:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/img-60476ece72696.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-army-issues-strong-warning-to-sheikh-gumi-over-ethnic-comments#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-army-issues-strong-warning-to-sheikh-gumi-over-ethnic-comments\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Nigerian Army issues strong warning to Sheikh Gumi over ethnic comments\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-09T14:43:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-army-issues-strong-warning-to-sheikh-gumi-over-ethnic-comments\"},\"wordCount\":193,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-army-issues-strong-warning-to-sheikh-gumi-over-ethnic-comments#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/img-60476ece72696.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Nigeria\",\"Nigerian Army\",\"Sheikh Gumi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-army-issues-strong-warning-to-sheikh-gumi-over-ethnic-comments#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-army-issues-strong-warning-to-sheikh-gumi-over-ethnic-comments\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-army-issues-strong-warning-to-sheikh-gumi-over-ethnic-comments\",\"name\":\"Nigerian Army issues strong warning to Sheikh Gumi over ethnic comments - 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