2023 Election: Refrain From Giving Threats, We supply Food You Eat – ACF Cautions Southerners
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has cautioned politicians and interest groups from the Southern part of Nigeria to refrain from presenting threats and ultimatum should the region fail to concede the 2023 Presidency to the region. DAILY POST reports.
Secretary-General of ACF, Murtala Aliyu, in a statement presented in Kaduna, insisted that the North producing the next president of the country should not unsettle the South.
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Part of the statement reads: “Gone are the days when Northerners felt blackmailed and intimidated by threats of restructuring, secession, break up or break down of Nigeria.”
The Secretary-General noted that the North does not seek to dominate any part of the country, stressing that it would not submit itself to be relegated to serfdom.
ACF explained that those issuing ultimatums were to be pitied, knowing that they knew not what they were doing. Information Guide Nigeria
The statement added that they owned no patent nor monopoly of the art or science of ultimatums.
The statement titled, “Enough of the blackmail”, stated that Southerners do not contest the fact that the North has 78 percent of the landmass of Nigeria, but refused to accept that the North has over 55 percent of the population of Nigeria. jamb results
It added that the voting population in the Northwest region of the North alone is bigger than those of the South-East and South-South combined, stressing “the South would never acknowledge the fact that all the beef, all the tomatoes, the onions, the beans, etc. consumed in the South are produced in the North.”
“They contest every fact, every principle, including those that formed the basis of our union, such as our federation, our system of administration, our democracy, among others,” the statement explained.
