Arewa to partner FG over Boko Haram’s menace

Following the continuous bombing in the country by Boko Haram sets, particularly in the northern region, a non-political group, the Arewa Consultative Forum [ACF] yesterday said its ready to he the Federal Government to tackle the issue if insecurity in the country.

The group promised to continue w0rking for unity and peace in the region and other parts of the country

In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary Anthony Sani in Kaduna, the ACF noted with regrets the negative commentaries against the ACF, regarding its efforts in ensuring that sanity prevails under the prevailing situation of insecurity in the

According to Sani, there was no time the “ACF and northern leaders ever entertained any fear that a group can dismember Nigeria. The ACF never said Nigeria would disintegrate. It only said if not arrested by consciously directed efforts, such crisis could lead the country to a failed state by 2015.”

The ACF said it was not true that that the North wants to make the country ungovernable for President Jonathan, saying that “As for the ACF, the position has been that the interdependence among constituent sections of Nigeria is such that divorce is not feasible.

“And that what is required, to move the nation forward is national grandeur, purposeful leadership and the best in every one.”

The statement added: “The position of the ACF and Northern leaders on the suspicion that the current level of insecurity and national malaise across the country, especially those caused by Boko Haram, are inspired by the North for the purpose of making the country ungovernable for President Jonathan on account of his mismanagement of politics of zoning, on account of his faith and ethnicity, is that those with such views are ignorant of democratic tenets.”