Tag Archives: ACF

2023: ACF warns southerners to stop issuing threats

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has warned Southern groups and politicians to stop issuing threats and ultimatum should the region fail to concede the 2023 Presidency to the region. Speaking in a statement made available to newsmen in Kaduna, Murtala Aliyu, Secretary-General of ACF, said that the North producing the next president of the country should not unsettle the South. ...

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2023: ACF chieftain explains why the north should support Tinubu

A top chieftain of the the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has explained why the North must support Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to become Nigeria’s president in 2023, as a payback for his numerous support for President Muhammadu Buhari. He made his view known while having an interview with newsmen on Thursday. The National Coordinator, Arewa Initiative for Peaceful Coexistence in Southern ...

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We don’t need another sick President, Tinubu should provide medical evidence- ACF

Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has reacted to the presidential ambition of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The group called on Nigerians with convincing medical evidence of Bola Tinubu, to speak out. According to the forum, Nigerians with Tinubu’s medical evidence should come out and show that he is not fit to contest the Presidency on health grounds. Speaking, spokesman of ACF, Emmanuel ...

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2023: ACF urges South East to lobby for presidency

Chief Audu Ogbeh, chairman, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has called on South-East leaders to lobby if they want to produce the nation’s next President. According to him, south east will not get the presidency if its leaders  resort to threats and blackmail. The former Agriculture Minister, speaking in an interview with newsmen in Kaduna, said that the ACF suggested that ...

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Gov Matawalle blasts ACF over comment on insecurity

The Zamfara State Government has criticised the negative statement made by the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) against Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle by the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) over Acccording to the state government, ACF statement on the allegation of banditry sponsorship in the state was bias because the body didn’t study carefully the statements by the Governor. The government wondered ...

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Presidential Election: ACF finally endorses Buhari

The Arewa Consultative Forum( ACF) says it has endorsed President Muhammadu Buhari as its preferred candidate for the Feb. 16 election. The Acting Chairman of the Forum Alhaji Liman Kwande announced this on Tuesday at a news briefing in Kaduna. Kwande expressed ACF’s belief that President Buhari deserves a second term to consolidate on his laudable achievements in the three ...

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2019: ACF, NEF,16 others pass vote of no confidence on Buhari, Northern politicians

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), the Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF) and 16 other leading groups in the northern region, on Saturday, passed a vote of no confidence in politicians of northern extraction, saying most of them had failed. The groups, in a communique, said politicians from the region had failed the North because they were unable to address the the ...

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Emergence of coalition for Nigeria shows democracy in acion – ACF

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has stated that thee mergence of the Coalition for Nigeria shows that democracy is in action in the country, Former President Olusegun Obasanjo had earlier this week registered as a member during the launching of the Coalition in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. Secretary General of the body, Anthony Sani, said that, “While there may ...

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Arewa Consultative Forum says Obansanjo can’t stop Buhari

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has said that former President Olusegun Obasanjo cannot stop President Muhammadu Buhari from running again in 2019. The Northern socio-cultural group said, though, the former President had the right to express his opinion like any other Nigerian, the decision laid with Buhari and his party to either contest or not. ACF stated this in a ...

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