Why I left Nigerian Army As a Captain without retiring – Sheik Gumi reveals

In a news article that was published by the Daily Trust Newspaper online this morning, it was reported that Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, who happens to be an Islamic scholar, and a medical doctor who retired as captain in the Nigerian Army, during an interview on Trust TV’s Daily Politics, has revealed the reason he left the military as a captain.

During the interview, Gumi was asked why he left the Military when he was a captain without retiring, and while he was responding to this, he said that he left because of the circumstances that led him into the military, as he never wanted to join the military before but, his father urged him to.

Sharing more details on this, Gumi said, “There was a certain Captain Bello, who fought in the civil war and used to tell my father about the situation in the Army. So, my father used to preach that people should join the army and other forces, work in banks, as well as join politics. He encouraged Muslims to be participants in nation building.”

Further talking, he said Captain Bello, told his father to put his male children in the Army, so that they would see what he meant and not just telling people to put their children there.

Gumi said that was how they were inducted into the army, as they went through selection, the physicals, medicals, everything and they were qualified.

He said, “I and my brother, who also left the army as a Brigadier-General, joined as an example. And as a kid, I had the ambition to learn Islamic and Arabic Studies.”