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    Don’t Play Into Yahaya Bello’s Hands, Youth Group Cautions Arewa Consultative Forum

    By Maimuna Bashir IsaDecember 11, 2023
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    A YOUTH Group, Arewa Youth Vanguard has called on the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) to be cautious of interference by Kogi state governor, Yahaya Bello into the leadership of the ACF.

    According to a statement signed by the National Leader and General Secretary, Alh. Abdulsamad Babayo and Kazayat Aminu respectively, Monday, Gov Bello is mortally trying to injure the ACF through the unwarranted attempt to remove Chief Arc. Gabriel Aduku, its Chairman who assumed the office only recently.

    See full statement below:

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    Our attention has been drawn to overt and covert measures orchestrated by Alhaji Yahaya Bello, the outgoing Governor of Kogi State to mortally injure the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) through the unwarranted attempt to remove Chief Arc. Gabriel

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    Aduku, its Chairman who assumed the office only recently.

    The Governor’s grouse with Chief Gabriel Aduku who we understand also doubles as the Acting Chairman, Kogi East Elders’ Council, (KEEC) was the visit to the Nigerian Chief of Defense Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa before the November 11, 2023 election in Kogi State to request among others the stepping up of security in the north and particularly

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    Kogi State which was sliding into a situation of anarchy.

    The heightened political insecurity in Kogi State, north central Nigeria weeks before the election, is a fact well known to every Nigerian and should be of concern particularly to the Arewa Consultative Forum. During the said visit, Chief Aduku also expressed concern about the security situation in Zamfara State and other and parts of Northern Nigeria.

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    His visit therefore cannot be termed as partisan by any fair minded person. As Chairman of Arewa Consultative Forum, the entire 19 northern states are his constituency and it is his duty to consult anybody anywhere in Nigeria to buttress the interest of the constituent parts of Arewa. Or, is Kogi State not covered by the ACF operations?

    Credit must infact, be given to the Aduku-led ACF for the relative security success enjoyed in Kogi State during the November 11, 2023 election in Kogi State. Were it not for that visit and the subsequent intervention of the military, only God knows how many persons would have been killed and maimed in Kogi State by thugs sponsored and unleashed on

    opponents and citizens by Yahaya Bello and his goons.

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    In previous elections under this Governor, Police helicopters were used to unleash terror on voters at polling units by openly and shamefully shooting at voters scaring them away from exercising their franchise. In addition, Fake security personnel were all over the state killing innocent voters and snatching ballot boxes.

    We were also witnesses to how vehicles containing collated results were burnt down by agents of the state Governor Alhaji Yahaya Bello. His grouse therefore, is that the Chief Gabriel Aduku-led ACF’s appealed for the deployment of enough security personnel which foiled his plans of causing anarchy in Kogi State during the last off circle election in the state. Even then, we saw in the social and mainstream media clear evidences with videos of how results were prefilled in many parts of Kogi Central day before the election was held as also reported by many credible observer groups who witnessed the brazen rape on our democracy.

    In the events after the election, we have also seen how INEC in the state and their official as

    well as the Election Tribunal Secretary has been subjected to several attacks and threats.

    Since the matter is already before the election tribunal, we shall not delve much into it to

    avoid contempt of the court but, we urge the Arewa Consultative Forum made up of eminent elders who are also witnessing the situation in Kogi State and others states of the north, not to play the ostrich at this critical comment before things completely go out of hand.

    In view of the foregoing, we call on all members of Arewa Consultative Forum to rise above the divisive manipulations of one man to tear down this house that has taken several distinguished personalities of all ethnicities in Northern Nigeria and different

    faiths in the region to build over the years. The Arewa Consultative Forum will be sounding its own death knell if it plays into the hands of unscrupulous politicians.

    Removing or attempting to remove Chief Gabriel Aduku because one governor’s untamed ego had been ruffled will create a crack in the very fabric of Arewa Consultative Forum, a crack that it may never recover from.

    We urge you as elders who we young people are looking up for leadership wisdom to be temperate, logical and dispassionate in handling this matter. Politicians come and go.

    This house must not be made to fall due to indiscretion orchestrated by an irrational megalomaniac. Do not embarrass the Forum and indeed the entire north by playing into the hands of an inexperienced youth, sadly one of us who has squandered a golden opportunity to make his mark in life. That would be a blight on the integrity of an august body like the Arewa Consultative Forum. Please thread carefully.

    SIGNED:

    Alh. Abdulsamad Babayo, National Leader

    Kazayat Aminu, General Secretary

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