The Northern Youth Assembly (NYA) has threatened to take over the Secretariat of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), in Kaduna in protest if Chairman of the Forum, Mamman Mike Osuman, is not reinstated back to office in the next seven days.
Recall that Mamman was recently suspended by the Board of Trustees (BOT) of the ACF for saying that ACF will only support a Northern Presidential candidate in the 2027 general election.
According to the NYA, it received with shock, the statement jointly signed by Bashir Muhammad Dalhatu and Murtala Aliyu, ACF’s Board of Trustees Chairman and Secretary respectively, where Mamman was suspended for criticizing the Tinubu led administration’s anti-citizens policies.
It said most of the Tinubu policies particularly affected the innocent people from the Northern part of the country, leading to widespread and untold hardship.
The NYA threat letter, which was signed by Comrade Adikwu Omaji Joshua, it’s National Publicity Secretary, AbdulHafiz Garba, it’s National Secretary, Ali Mohammed Idris, it’s President and nineteen Northern State Coordinators and Abuja, accused the ACF of reducing itself to becoming mere agents of protecting the Tinubu administration despite its continued, oppression, impoverishing and staving the Nigerian citizens.
The NYA described the shameful action of the ACF’s BOT as a clear indication that the ACF is not for the Arewa masses, who bear much of the brunt of these anti human policing which has pushed millions of Nigerians into object poverty.
“The action against the personality of the Chairman was impliedly aimed at pleasing President Ahmed Bola Tinubu for self serving interest and political ambition despite the growing tendency of President Tinubu persecuting the people of Northern Nigeria despite their political magnanimity to him in 2023 general election.
“Therefore, unless necessary measures are taken to address these concerns, it won’t be out of place if a Northern Nigerian regional campaign is launched to call and support the emergence of a new and capable person from the Northern region come 2027 to take over the political ship of the country, especially as it is obvious that President Tinubu is failing”, it warned.
