The Arewa
Consultative Forum (ACF) has disowned a statement criticising President
Muhammadu Buhari and other northern leaders.
Last week, key
northern groups met in Kaduna and asked northerners to examine “all options” in
the political choices they will make in 2019.
They said most
of the political office holders from the north “are hereby served notice that
they have failed the test to lead the region towards economic recovery and
growth”.
Ibrahim Mai
Sule signed the communique on behalf of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and
Northern Elders Forum (NEF).
But in a
statement on Thursday, Muhammad Ibrahim, spokesman of the ACF, said the person
who signed did so on his own.
Ibrahim said
the forum “will address the north and the nation on this and similar issues as
it always does at the appropriate time”.
The statement
read: “The attention ACF has been drawn to the Communique of the Northern
Groups Summit held at the Arewa House, Kaduna, on Saturday, March 24, 2018
where the ACF was said to be a signatory to the communique.
“For the
avoidance of doubt, the ACF would want to state clearly that it was never
involved in the preparation nor participated in the said summit of that group
and did not mandate any of its members to represent it.
“ACF
acknowledges the right of the individuals or groups to freedom of association
as enshrined in our constitution. Any member who claimed to have represented
ACF or signed on behalf of the forum did so on his own.
“Furthermore,
the views expressed in the said communique were that of the conveners and not
that of ACF which is an umbrella body for all northerners irrespective of their
political, ethnic and religious persuasions. ACF therefore dissociates itself
from the communique in its entirety.”
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