Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has alleged that security sources in Abuja warned him that he had been listed for elimination in connection with the Boko Haram insurgency.
Speaking while addressing his congregation, Gumi said he received an early-morning phone call from a senior security source who told him his name was mentioned during a high-level security meeting.
“They called me from Abuja and said there was a security meeting,” he said. “I was told that I have been marked for elimination. And who are Boko Haram?”
According to the cleric, the caller said his name was among those allegedly identified for assassination, a development he linked to foreign counterterrorism actions.
Gumi blamed the United States for the emergence of Boko Haram, arguing that foreign interventions presented as counterterrorism efforts had fuelled the insurgency.
“Even the Americans say they came to fight terrorists,” he said. “So who are the terrorists? They are the ones.”
In a video circulating on social media, Gumi claimed he was informed by a top official that he had been marked by the United States for possible elimination through an American airstrike, allegedly as part of Boko Haram.
“They are the ones doing it - Boko Haram,” he said. “You will hear something. Won’t they put bomb here?”
The cleric accused policies he attributed to US President Donald Trump of worsening Nigeria’s insecurity and deepening religious and social divisions, while Nigerian leaders and clerics remained silent.
He said Nigeria had become more fractured due to foreign-backed funding and narratives that portrayed Christians as the sole victims of insecurity, thereby fuelling mistrust among communities.
“Because of lies, violence has come,” Gumi said. “But where are the leaders? Where are the scholars? Everyone has gone to hide in their corners.”
Gumi argued that no sovereign country would accept external interference aimed at dividing its people along religious or social lines, insisting that such actions undermined national unity.
“Which country would agree to bring something just to divide its people?” he asked.
He accused political and religious elites of abandoning meaningful dialogue, leaving Nigerians with rhetoric rather than solutions, as hardship and oppression intensified.
“You brought hardship, you broke us, you oppressed us, you denied us our rights,” he said.
The cleric warned that fear, silence and deepening divisions were dragging Nigeria down, stressing that continued inaction by leaders would only worsen the country’s crisis.
“This is the situation we are in,” he said. “It is dragging the country down.”
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