Tag: Arewa Group

2023 APC candidate: Arewa group accuses Gov. Bagudu of plotting to facilitate Jonathan’s emergence

Aminu Imam

A Northern group, Arewa Peoples’ Forum, (APF), has blamed Governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State for an alleged plot to facilitate the emergence of former President Goodluck Jonathan as the presidential candidate for the 2023 elections. According to the group, Bagudu has been pulling strings behind the scene to complete the defection of the ex-president to the party. It claims that giving the ticket to the former president will be harmful to the party’s unity and chances of victory at the polls. The group, in an issued statement signed in…

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‘Over 50,000 northerners unjustly imprisoned in Lagos’, Arewa group alleges

Aminu Imam

A socio-cultural group, the Northern Youth Unity Forum, has revealed that over 50,000 northerners are currently held as prisoners in different prisons in Lagos State. According to the chairman of the forum, Dr. Ibrahim Yau Galadanchi, who was represented by Ibrahim Usman, disclosed that most of the northerners leave their states in search of greener pastures and are apprehended by security agencies. “Whenever our men trooped from different northern states and arrive Lagos, security agencies and the area boys interrogated them about the purpose of their visit to the state,…

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Arewa group demands identity of Gulak’s killers

Aminu Imam

…Tasks IGP on ethical policing The coalition of Arewa Civil Society Organizations (CACSO), on Sunday, called on the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Alkali Usman Baba, to reveal the identities of those behind the gruesome murder of Ahmed Gulak, 8 months ago. The coalition also demanded the true identity of the Police officers who masked themselves to abduct Chief Uche Nwosu in a Gestapo style from an Anglican Church service in Imo State, in December 2021. Recall that Gulak, a former Political Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan and a Chieftain of…

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2023: Arewa group seeks power shift to South-East

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…Says North now a human abattoir A Northern group, Arewa Concerned Civil Society Organisations of Nigerian, (ACCSON), has said that in the interest of fairness and equity, the presidency in 2023 should go to the South-East geo-political zone. This was contained in a statement signed by Comrade Abdulsalam Mohammed Kazeem, the group’s spokesperson. The CSOs lamented that the North has turned into a human abattoir under the incumbent administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.The group lambasted the President of Arewa Consultative Youth Forum, Yerima Shettima, describing a statement attributed to him…

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“Those threatening EFCC boss will have to deal with us first” — Arewa Groups

Aminu Imam

A northern group, Arewa Youth Assembly, (AYA), has said it is ready to fight anybody that threatens the Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa. It comes days after Bawa said he had been receiving death threats from high-profile figures since he became head of the anti-graft agency.  At a press conference, the speaker of the Arewa Youth Assembly, Mohammed Salihu Danlami, said Bawa must not be deterred from doing the right thing.  “Any attack or threat on the Chairman is a threat on us and we will…

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2023: Arewa group tips Amaechi, Tinubu, Orji Kalu, others as potential Buhari’s successor

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A political pressure group, the ‘Arewa Mandate Initiative’, (AMI), has tipped ex-governors of Lagos, Rivers and Abia States as among potential successors to President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. The group said the endorsement was in line with the gentleman agreement reached by the leaders of the party at the formative stage in 2015. The AMI, in a statement issued by its FCT Coordinator, Muhammad Mubarak and Sokoto Secretary, Aminu Muhammed, noted its survey among the All Progressives Congress, (APC) supporters on the 2023 presidential power shift indicated that the majority of the APC family…

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