By Cos-lewis Osigbemhe
National Chairman of Arewa Consultative Forum, (ACF) and a former Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh, stated in an issued communique at the end of the Forum’s National Executive Council meeting in Kaduna State. He said the forum does not have a candidate and have no plans of endorsing one ahead of the 2023 election regardless of a geo-political zone.
He also stated that the forum will only engage candidates to find out the programmes they have for the north after the political parties who have the exclusive permission of the constitution to sponsor candidates have chosen a presidential candidate. In his brief, the Chairman stated “We should desist from endorsing any candidate for the 2023 presidency. If anybody asks you about the endorsement, tell such person that we are not a political party. Even for 2023, we do not know yet who the candidate is. We are not a political party. We do not participate in political activities except where it becomes necessary. May God help us with a good candidate. It is only the Almighty God that can solve our problems,” he said.
He also spoke amidst political tension in the country including kidnapping of students in both private and public schools, across the country and also emphasized on the murder of Hanifa Abubakar in Kano state.
According to him, “Government must try very hard to bring sanity to our school system, otherwise we are going nowhere because there are crimes like cultism, sodomy, and others in most of our schools today.”
