I’m not anti-Islam, Wike tells Muslim leaders

The minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesome Wike, has said it is not true that he is advocating for policies that are against Islamic religious practices.

He spoke when he members of the Abuja National Mosque management committee, led by the Etsu of Nupe, Yahaya Abubakar on Wednesday, October 18.

This follows the comment of a popular Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, who described  Wike as “a satanic person”, asking “Tinubu to remove him.

Gumi criticised Wike for receiving the Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria in his office. The cleric in a sermon also threatened that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu would be stopped from serving for eight years.

Responding to the allegations, Wike said, “There’s no government, not one that will hesitate not to support the maintenance of our national monument be it Islam, be it Christain because all of us we are in authority. Every day we say may God help us, if we say may God help us what are the centres of worship of that God you call to help you, if that centre of worship is not there how then would you begin to say may God help us. So you also have a role to make sure that centre of worship is still maintained well for the worship of God.

“So let me declare to you here sir, whatever assistance you think which the previous administration or authority has been helping, if we do not surpass it we will continue to do that.”