The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has denied endorsing former Abia governor, Sen.Orji Uzor Kalu as its preferred candidate for the Senate Presidency of the 10th National Assembly.
Alhaji Musa Saidu, a member of the forum said
this in a statement on Monday in Abuja.
Saidu was reacting to a statement created to
Alhaji Yerima Shettima, the leader of the Arewa Youth Conservative Forum, AYCF,
claiming that the ACF had endorsed Kalu for the position.
“I want to say without fear of contradiction,
that the ACF has no youth wing and there was no time that we sat to make
Shettima the AYCF leader.
“The whole thing is false.
“The ACF has not endorsed Kalu as the next
Senate President, because we have our own ways of doing things.
“It is shocking to hear Shettima asking Sen.
Abdulaziz Yari to step down for Kalu in the race for Senate Presidency,” he
said.
Saidu, also the leader of the Arewa Community
in Southern Nigeria, said that the ACF would have preferred that the position
be zoned to the North because of its contribution to the victory of President
Bola Tinubu in the Feb. 25 election.
“The North contributed the highest votes for
Tinubu in the presidential election, so we can’t just endorse candidates from
other zones for the Senate Presidency.
“How can we work for Tinubu to become
president and then turn around to start campaigning for other zones to become
Senate President.
“In fact the Vice-President slot given to the
North is just like a spare tyre, everybody in Nigeria knows that the position
has no much value.
“Since the North West gave Tinubu the highest
votes, then it should be given the Senate Presidency, the position of the
Speaker of the House of Representatives is too small for the zone,” he said.
Saidu added: ”It is a payback time for the
North, so it should be given the Senate Presidency of the 10th National
Assembly.
“For fairness and justice, the North should
be considered for the Senate Presidency and Sen. Abdulaziz Yari should be
endorsed for the position.”
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