{"id":81164,"date":"2026-01-05T10:44:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81164"},"modified":"2026-01-05T10:44:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:44:21","slug":"gumi-denies-viral-claim-of-alleged-us-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/05\/gumi-denies-viral-claim-of-alleged-us-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Gumi Denies Viral Claim of Alleged US Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Islamic scholar Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has dismissed as fake news a viral report claiming he was targeted by a United States attack in Nigeria.<br \/>\nIn a post on his verified Facebook page, Gumi clarified that he never made such a statement and is safe at home. \u201cI never said so, and I never thought of such a possibility. I am comfortably staying in my home with my family without fear or apprehension,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nHe explained the false narrative likely arose from a misinterpretation of a mosque lecture, where he referenced a past security incident involving Boko Haram in August 2012. \u201cTwo people who planned to attack me were killed instantly when their bomb detonated near my house,\u201d Gumi said.<br \/>\nHe urged media organisations that carried the report to retract it and issue public apologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David Islamic scholar Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has dismissed as fake news a viral report claiming he was targeted by a United States attack in Nigeria. In a post on his verified Facebook page, Gumi clarified that he never made such a statement and is safe at home. \u201cI never said so, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":81165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,1724,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","category-insecurity","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81166,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81164\/revisions\/81166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}