2023: ACF takes position on zoning of presidency

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has taken a position on the controversial zoning of Nigeria’s presidency come 2023.

Speaking with a select group of journalists in Kaduna, the ACF Chairman, Chief Audu Ogbeh, asked political parties to sit down and discuss in the interest of the country.

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He said the Forum was only a pressure group and not a political party.

He, however, advised all those interested in leading the country to move around the country, speak to Nigerians and lobby for the position.

“The question of zoning should be left to the political parties,” Ogbeh, a former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Minister, said.

“Let everybody who wants to participate go round, lobby and talk to people. There is so much hostility and venom and people are writing all things on the pages of newspapers.

“Nobody has come to us here to tell us they want to run, and we would tell them, fine, talk to this and talk to that.  So, let people move around, it is not warfare, we want Nigeria to have peace, we want equity, we want fairness and people may like or may not like zoning but if it solves are problem in Nigeria, we should run it,” he said.

He said the ACF will support whosoever the parties throw up but warned that there is no way the whole north will vote for one person.

“That will not happen, people will vote according to their conscience and convictions but what we need most is peace and stability, we don’t want a break up,” he said.