Arewa Consultative Forum has berated Nigeria politicians that are paying more attention to early campaigns for 2027 general elections than crisis facing the Nation.
The group urged them to divert their energies on pressing issues, such as insecurity, hardship, economic challenge facing the country.
Speaking at its National Executive Committee meeting in Kaduna on Thursday, ACF Chairman, Mamman Osuman, said that political leaders should focus on governance and fulfill all election promises to the people rather than campaign.
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Osuman also expressed concern over recent killings in Northern regions, particularly in Plateau, Edo, and Borno states, and the ongoing dispute between Kogi and Enugu states over the Ette Community land.
He said: “Individual utterances and media exposés relating to the upcoming 2027 elections are already hitting the airwaves.
“This momentum, in my humble view, should take the back burner while emphasis should be earnestly placed on governance that will truly address the biting needs of our people who are daily subjected to sufferings as a result of brigandage, terrorism, kidnapping, mass murders, hunger, and diseases.
“Notwithstanding our individual political allegiance to individual politicians, groups or ideologies, I humbly urge that we as ACF, should in practical terms manifest and espouse ourselves as beacons of hope for our people by altruistically, openly and courageously preaching truth to power in the manner done by the late Martin Luther King Junior, Indira Ghandi and Nelson Mandela.
“Only recently, we were rudely astounded with the sad news of the resurgence of the debilitating terror attacks and loss of lives and property in Bokkos, Plateau State, the gruesome assassination of northerners in Uromi, Edo State, and the resurgence of Boko Haram in Borno State.
“The ugly situations have been accentuated by recession, high cost of living, poor health care, and the high cost of transportation.”
