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The apex northern socio-cultural group, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has expressed its desire to support northern candidates and others seeking political offices in 2027 to save the region and the country.
It described some of the policies of the present administration as being injurious to the region.
ACF national chairman Mamman Mike Osuman disclosed this during the organisations National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held at the ACF secretariat in Kaduna on Wednesday.
The ACF chieftain said the meeting was aimedat examining the region’s deplorable situation and urged Northerners to take responsibility for saving the region from bad governance come the 2027 elections.
“There is now a clarion call for individual sacrifices and individual inputs for the survival of our region and the emancipation of our downtrodden people.
“A sizable number of regional brothers and sisters have demonstrated proclivity towards politics and political offices come 2027. They are already focusing on the 2027 elections. While politics is sine qua non in our clime, this moment calls for recognising our region’s plights and strategic efforts to ameliorate hardships that have besieged people.
“I do understand their feelings. It is not in doubt that the North is currently under siege. Our dear region is not only being viciously attacked by bandits, terrorists and kidnappers but also by sinister devices like disproportionate considerations and inequitable treatment.
“I admit that some policies of the current administration are repugnant and adverse to our regional interests.
“ACF believes that specific policies and behaviours of our regional leaders need some critical evaluation.”
He questioned elected leaders over their prudence and concern for the region’s domestic and environmental problems.
He went on: “To what extent are our governors and legislators synergising with our traditional leaders in combating ills within our region? – to the extent that some of our sons, daughters, sisters and brothers are sometimes criminal participants in the disquiet, ills and crimes that torment us in our region.
“What are we (leaders of thought and stakeholders) doing towards arresting their evil trend and propensities?”
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