The Arewa Consultative Discussion board (ACF) in Kano has strongly denied media reviews claiming it opposed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu being allowed to run as the only real candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) within the 2027 presidential election.
Addressing journalists on Wednesday, the state chairman of the discussion board, Gwani Farouk Umar, dismissed a BBC report which quoted the ACF’s Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Professor Muhd Tukur Baba, as saying the group didn’t assist Tinubu’s sole candidacy for the APC ticket in 2027.
Umar burdened that the feedback weren’t made on behalf of the ACF and that the discussion board was displeased by them.
“What the spokesman mentioned was not with our consent, and we’re not comfortable about it. We aren’t politicians and we don’t take sides with candidates,” he mentioned.
He acknowledged that Kano Chapter had disavowed the feedback and urged the nationwide physique of the ACF to scrutinize any political declaration earlier than it goes public.
He defined that it was not the primary time this kind of occasion had occurred. He recalled that there had been an identical occasion up to now when a consultant of the ACF supported a candidate in an election, just for the discussion board later to disclaim the assertion.
Umar urged the management to warning Professor Baba to forestall a recurrence.
He additional famous that forward of the 2023 common elections, the ACF had met with representatives of political events and secured their commitments to the discussion board’s calls for.
The Kano ACF chairman additionally praised Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf for presenting a invoice earlier than the state meeting to grant native governments full autonomy. He urged lawmakers to move the invoice and known as on anti-corruption businesses to make sure that public funds should not misused.
