Because the 2027 common elections in Nigeria attracts close to, the Arewa Consultative Discussion board, ACF, has reminded its members to proceed to take care of political neutrality.
Talking at its assembly in Kaduna on Tuesday, the chairman, Board of Trustees, Bashir Dalhatu, stated, though ACF members could belong to political events of their selection, as a corporation, ACF is politically non-partisan and wouldn’t help one occasion over the opposite.
“What we often do at elections is to checklist out the anticipated qualities of people who aspire to political workplaces. Though the ACF is a regional, socio-cultural, financial and non partisan political group, it’s keenly within the agency institution of a viable democracy, good governance in addition to the continued survival of Nigeria as one, robust, united and indivisible nation.”
He added, “Going ahead, I would like to attract consideration to the continued unhealthy proliferation of non authorities teams and associations within the Northern States with goals and targets clearly just like that of ACF. Our energy lies in our unity, in pooling sources collectively and in talking with one voice on all issues affecting our individuals and our Area.”
He defined that again in 2000, Northern leaders together with former Presidents of Nigeria of northern extraction, the state governors, the Sultan and different Emirs and Chiefs, together with a cross part of the Northern intelligentsia and non secular leaders got here collectively to ascertain the Arewa Consultative Discussion board.
He said that the aim was to attain unity and achieve concord between and amongst all northerners, saying that to do that, they’d needed to persuade a number of civil society teams such because the Turaki Committee, led by former president Shehu Shagari, the Unity and Improvement Basis below Alhaji Sule Katagum and the Northern Elders Discussion board run by Alhaji Abdulrahman Okene, to dissolve themselves and fuse into the newly established ACF.
“In deference to the reminiscence of those elder statesmen, Northerners who’ve or are pondering of making parallel or splinter teams ought to rethink their actions and are available again inside the ACF. There’s sufficient room within the ACF to accommodate all Northerners,” he confused.
