Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has warned against the involvement of the United States in Nigeria's war against terrorism.

This was as he stated that it is false to say that the Nigerian military is prevented from engaging the insurgency caused by Boko Haram and bandits.

In a post on Facebook warning that Nigeria's sovereignty is a red line, Sheikh Gumi said as a peace advocate, "I am stunned by some remarks from ignorance that the military was or is prevented from engaging bandits or Boko Haram. This claim is false and malicious. Never for one second has the military halted hostilities in the name of Amnesty against unrepentant terrorists except the Niger Delta militants who got a blanket Amnesty from Yar'Adua of blessed memory."

He noted that almost 17 years since 2009, when Muhammad Yusuf was summarily executed extra- judicially, Boko Haram has remained a thorn in the throat of Nigerians, killing high-ranking officers.

"The gross failure of the kinetic approach is chiefly attributed to the morality of our fighting force. Until, innocent people are safe from our excesses in the application of the kinetic approach and our hands are not stained with the blood of innocent people, the war is going to erode our sovereignty, which it has already," he said.

Gumi said the military can handle the situation if the rules of engagement are free of prejudice and deception, both in the application of force and in finances.

The cleric warned that the involvement of the USA would only attract the international terror groups to the 'new arena', exposing Nigeria to an unnecessary increase in violence, in which these same foreign forces are complicit.

This was after U.S and Nigerian troops eliminated the wanted ISIS second-in-command, Abu Bilal Al-Minuki in Nigeria last week.

"Why did the American ex-envoy, Russell Hanks, who was accused of masterminding the bombing of a bookshop at Durbar Hotel, Kaduna, in 1995, decline to comment on the matter?

"U.S. Congressman Scott Perry, a Republican representing Pennsylvania, alleged in February 2025 that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) had inadvertently provided funding to terrorist organisations, including Boko Haram, ISIS, and Al-Qaeda.

"Nigerians, especially a section of them, are not just gullible but have a slave mentality ever ready to hand over the sovereignty of our dear nation to foreign interests. We have to resist foreign subjugation and disgrace," he said.