Africa-Press – Nigeria. The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), will not endorse any candidate in the 2027 presidential election, the forum’s National Publicity Secretar, Prof. T. A. Muhammad-Baba, has said.
It would instead interview the presidential hopefuls in the next six months to ascertain their plans for the region and the country as a whole.
Speaking in Kaduna, he explained that the presidential hopefuls would be asked to unearth plans on how best they will tackle the security challenges and poverty in the northern region.
According to Muhammad-Baba, “Just like in the 2023 presidential elections, the forum will invite all the aspirants or candidates to come and explain how each aspirant will tackle insecurity and poverty, among other issues affecting the northern region, if elected president in the 2027 polls.”
He added that the forum would prepare a position paper on the North and present the document to the winner of the 2027 presidential election on how to tackle the challenges facing the region.
The National Publicity Secretary observed that the candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, and the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Dr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, did not come to address the forum in 2023 despite the forum’s invitations.
ACF, however, said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, then candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and the Labour Party (LP) candidate, Peter Obi, attended the forum’s 2023 interactive session.
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