Popular Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has reacted to a warning to him by the Nigerian Army, which finds its recent comments unpalatable.
The army on Monday said his claim that soldiers killing bandits were Christian.
In an interview with BBC on Tuesday, however, he said the military had misunderstood him.
According to him, he is not referring to the present crop of the military.
Gumi said:
“I saw what the army said. What I will say is that there is a misunderstanding in the issues. When I speak about the religious issue in the army, I’m not referring to today’s army.
“The issue is from 2010-2015 when some people who were in charge of the army and when a lot of bad things happened.
“It was during that time, bombings happened everywhere. It happened in Jaji and we lost a popular Muslim general and it was God that saved me because they planted a bomb on me.”
