The leader of the Arewa Consultative Forum, (ACF), in the South, Musa Sa’idu, has said northerners in the South will not support the presidential bid of the former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, saying the presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), was religiously insensitive.
Sa’idu alleged that while Amaechi was serving as the governor in Rivers State, his administration took over the cemetery for northerners in Port Harcourt, adding that every effort he (Sa’idu) made for reversal of the action were futile. Continuing, he said the alleged action of the government was a clear indication of a governor who was religiously insensitive in a setting such as Nigeria.
According to him, most of the northerners singing praises of the presidential aspirants are allegedly around him for what they can get.
He recalled that unlike Delta, Enugu States, where northerners were appointed Special Advisers to the State governors, and alleged that Amaechi never considered any northerner for appointment as Special Adviser or Commissioner.
He further said the North will also not support the present governor, Nyesom Wike, who is also aspiring to be president on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), even though it appeared Wike is firmly in control of the PDP. According to him, the governor had not appointed a northerner in the State as Commissioner or Special Adviser since he came on board as governor.
Sa’idu said he was shocked to hear governor Nasir El-Rufa’i, of Kaduna State, say that Amaechi funded the Congress for Progressive Change, (CPC), while he was in the PDP, an act he said was anti-party in every sense.
