ACF to FG: Life in Nigeria is tough, citizens are killed everyday
Chief Audu Obge, a former minister in Buhari’s cabinet who has effectively taken over as Chairman of Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has said that life in Nigeria was tough while the current killings were reminiscent of the Nigerian civil war.
According to him, “we have not faced this challenge before: Killings day and night. At no time has life been so tough except during the civil war,” he said.
In a communiqué signed by Mr. Emmanuel Yawe, National Publicity Secretary of the ACF issued after the first meeting of the newly elected national working committee (NWC) of ACF, Audu Ogbe was quoted to have said “some Nigerians mistake the ACF to be an ethnic, tribal, religious or a political organization. It is none of these. We have over 300 tribes in the north and we cannot afford to be an ethnic organisation.”
According to the communiqué, “the Arewa Consultative Forum which was established in March 2000, held a General Assembly in March 2020 at which a new leadership was elected to fill positions in the forum.”
“Unfortunately, the country and in fact the whole world was gripped by the coronavirus pandemic which forced all of us into a lockdown. In this situation, meetings became impossible. Fortunately, the lockdown has been relaxed and this is why the first meeting of this new leadership was held just today.”
ACF resolved that ” the meeting was presided over by Chief Audu Ogbeh, the newly elected Chairman of the forum. In his opening remarks he regretted the inability of his executive committee to meet due to the coronavirus pandemic.”
