RESTRUCTURING WITHOUT ZONING: Yoruba leaders cautious on ACF, NEF, others’ move
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By Dayo Johnson, Ola Ajayi, Shina Abubakar Ojo, Rotimi Ojomoyela and James Ogunnaike
Some Yoruba leaders, at the weekend, reacted with cautious optimism to the news that a coalition of northern groups was supporting the demand for the restructuring of the country but rejected zoning.
“We keep our fingers crossed because this type of grandiloquent declarations are not new from the leadership of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) which are the only known groups among those which issued the communiqué”, a chieftain of Afenifere and a member of the 2014 National Conference, Chief Olusola Ebiseni, said.
We are ready for restructuring but won t rotate presidency —North
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NEF, CNG, ACF, others reject zoning, back restructuring
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By Ibrahim HassanWuyo
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF and other conveners of the Northern Peoples Summit have described restructuring as a vital necessity for survival as one united entity.
The North, they insisted, will not be stampeded or blackmailed into taking major decisions around rotating the Presidency.
While reading the communiqué of Northern Peoples Summit on Friday at the Arewa House Kaduna,Prof.Doknan Danjuma Sheni ,Chairman of the Communiqué Drafting Committee, said the Northern Peoples Summit convened on the 7th and 8th April, 2021 at Arewa House, Kaduna discussed issues bedeviling the North and the Nigerian State.