The national chairman, North Central People’s Forum, Gabriel Aduku, has assured of the forum’s poise to address issues of neglect, poverty, underdevelopment, resource underutilization as well as progressive diminution of the zone with a view to engendering its development. Aduku, who gave the assurance during the inauguration of the National Working Committee of the North […]
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Tue Jul 13 2021
The North-Central People’s Forum (NCPF) has said zoning of the presidency to any region is needless, unconstitutional and should be jettisoned in the build-up to the 2023 general poll.
Addressing newsmen on Monday in Abuja, Secretary General of the forum, Alhaji Khaleel Bolaji, said competence should be the guiding principle in the choice of who succeeds President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.
He said Nigerians should vote for a competent person, who has integrity and is committed to ending the avalanche of challenges bedevilling the nation, rather than agitating for zoning of the top job to a particular region.
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Retired military chiefs, former governors, ex-ministers, among other North-Central leaders have met in Abuja over the insecurity in Nigeria. Among those in attendance were former Deputy Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu; ex-Governors of Nasarawa and Kwara States, Umaru Al-Makura and Abdulfatah Ahmed; Gabriel Aduku, ex-Minister of State for Health. The prominent citizens.The Advocate
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The leaders, including Tanko Al-Makura (pictured) and Abdulfatah Ahmed, former governors of Nasarawa and Kwara respectively, said the north-central must regain its place as “the domain of peace and tranquillity”.
They spoke at a meeting organised on Thursday in Abuja ahead of the proposed security summit being organised by the North Central Peoples’ Forum (NCPF).
Al-Makura, who is the current senator representing Nasarawa south, said almost every state in the region is facing one security challenge or another.
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“Our zone has always been known as the home of tourism, of harmony, of solid minerals, the confluence of the two major rivers in the country, the food basket of the nation,” he said.