The Arewa Consultative Forum
(ACF) has outlined its expectations from those vying for the presidency in
2019.
It insists those interested in
the nation’s top office should have an articulate and thorough blueprint that
will catapult the country to be among the comity of great nations.
The acting Chairman of ACF,
Alhaji Musa Liman Kwande, made this demand known yesterday when he received the
presidential candidate of the Peoples Trust, Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, at the
forum’s secretariat in Kaduna.
According to him, candidates must
be ready to run issue-based campaigns and refrain from all forms of incitement.
“We expect to see genuinely, the
very positive and pragmatic policies and measures put in place to fight against
corruption, insecurity, impunity, anarchy and a host of other disingenuous
activities which, if not effectively contained, would certainly be the bane of
our progress and development as a people and one cohesive nation,” he said.
Kwande said however that the ACF
is a non-partisan, non-political, non-religious body which tries to promote
peace, unity, justice and the rule of law, with the main thrust to promoting
and protecting the interest and development of North and its people.
He said in the spirit of its
non-partisan disposition, the ACF will not align with an individual or
political party but will strive to weigh the scale on what is good for the
North in particular, and the overall good of the nation.
“ACF therefore appeals to you
leaders of your various political parties to ensure that you live by the
letters and spirit of the Abuja Peace Accord put up by the National Peace
Committee under the Former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd),
which you all signed and pledged to uphold.
Earlier, Olawepo had solicited
the support of the ACF as the foremost socio-political group in the north in
his bid to contest the presidency.
He said the ACF should consider
him being the first among the presidential candidates to come to the forum for
blessing.
The presidential candidate said
he has the capacity to create jobs having done so in his personal capacity in
the past couple of years.
He recalled that Nigeria used to
be one united entity where beliefs and ethnic background do not determine a
person’s fate.
He added that he was striving to
bring Nigeria back to the pre-1960 era where there was cohesion and unity among
its people.
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