The national chairman, North Central People’s Forum, Gabriel Aduku, has assured of the forum’s poise to address issues of neglect, poverty, underdevelopment, resource underutilization as well as progressive diminution of the zone with a view to engendering its development.
Aduku, who gave the assurance during the inauguration of the National Working Committee of the North Central Peoples’ Forum (NCPF) at the forum’s secretariat in Abuja, lamented that even with the abundant natural and human resources domiciled in all the states within the zone as well as its comparative advantage in agriculture and agro-allied produces and ventures, the North Central still continued to be bedevilled by security and developmental challenges.
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He assured that the forum would also address the cry for fairness and justice for equitable development of the zone “which, at several critical times in our national history, played a unifying role to keep Nigeria together.”
He, however, called on the members of the committee to leverage on the renewed vigour bequeathed by the inauguration and work towards achieving “our set target of engendering massive development for our zone.”
Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Lt. Gen. Jeremiah Useni (rtd), who inaugurated the committee, disclosed that the NCPF was conceived to pursue and accommodate a gamut of developmental interests across the six states of the North Central geopolitical zone and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The new NCPF officials who took the oath of allegiance at the inauguration ceremony include Arc. Gabriel Y. Aduku, National Chairman; Alhaji. Abdullahi Oji, Deputy Chairman; Khaleel Bolaji, Secretary-General; and Rt. Hon. Audu Sule, Publicity Secretary.
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