Kwankwaso tasks ACF on solutions to banditry, kidnapping in northern states
23 November 2024 |
3:13 am
A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State, Ilyasu Kwankwaso, has challenged the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), to proffer workable solutions to the security threats bedeviling the northern parts of the country.
A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State, Ilyasu Kwankwaso, has challenged the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), to proffer workable solutions to the security threats bedeviling the northern parts of the country.
Kwankwaso was ostensibly reacting to the outcome of the recent ACF meeting, which was held in Kaduna, where the body accused the Federal Government of neglecting the region and also submitted that only a president from the northern part of the country can manage the challenges of the area.
In a communiqué signed by its National Publicity Security, Prof. Tukur Muhammad-Baba, after the meeting, ACF expressed dissatisfaction with the economic policies of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, claiming that they have worsened the hardship faced by average Nigerians.
However, Kwankwaso stated that rather than threatening President Bola Tinubu’s administration with change in 2027, the ACF should come up with pragmatic solutions to the banditry and terrorist attacks in the region.
The APC stalwart insisted that the current socio-economic situation in the country and its extreme impact in the North outdated the President Tinubu administration, arguing that successive administrations badly managed the economy, which the President inherited.
The former Commissioner for Rural Development during the Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje administration urged the ACF to initiate a roundtable discussion that would involve religious, traditional and political leaders to chart a new cause for the North.
He added that President Tinubu would give utmost consideration and attention to whatever would be discussed at the roundtable with sincerity, if tabled before him.
He stressed that, “we the north should look inward on how to solve pressing menaces facing us and stop a ball game attitude of transfer of aggression on President Tinubu.”
He also stated that though it is normal for the ACF to speak on issues threatening the northern states, it should also try to look for a true panacea to the challenges of the region.
“We in the North should listen and act on what the former Sokoto state governor, Attahiru Bafarawa said, that we do not like ourselves. This is more of the reason we have not been able to unite and face the challenges bedeviling the region,” he added.
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