sentences:  Abubakar Gumi has proven not to have anything to do with the present Nigerian sunni movement of Boko haram because of his strong support for democracy, civil law and western education since his early years as a teacher, he's often quoted to have said, "during election, voting is more necessary than to pray".Gumi is a follower of the Maliki school of thought, this was derived through his writings including his Qur'anic tafsir ("Raddul azhaan ila ma'anil kur'an")
  
  and other books like ("hullu nizam ala nuzuul isa").Gumi was born in the village of Gummi now a local government area in Zamfara state on the last Friday of Ramadan in the Islamic year 1344, to the family of Mahmud, an Islamic scholar and Alkali (judge) of Gummi.