The President of the Centre for Convention on Democratic Integrity (CCDI), Olufemi Aduwo, has strongly criticised Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi over his recent tribute to Iran’s late Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In a statement, Aduwo described Gumi’s remarks as “profoundly misguided and perilously inflammatory,” arguing that portraying Khamenei as a symbol of justice ignores what he called decades of repression and destabilising foreign policy under the Iranian leader’s rule. Gumi had reportedly eulogised Khamenei, who was said to have been killed on February 28, 2026, in a joint United States–Israeli airstrike on Tehran, describing him as a martyr whose death would inspire transformation across the Muslim Ummah. However, Aduwo maintained that such rhetoric romanticises wh...