Arewa Consultative Forum has been advised not to blindly support the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration like the Niger Delta people did with his predecessor.
Senator Shehu Sani cautioned the northern socio-political group on Monday when the Executive members of the Kaduna state chapter of the group paid him a visit.
Senator Shehu Sani, representing Kaduna Central told the ACF executives led by its chairman, Ramaln Yero that the group should support the government when the need arises and criticize when necessary.
“ACF should not be like the people of Niger Delta who will support whatever decisions taken by their leaders because they are their own.”
“ACF should support the government where it is right and should also talk where the government goes wrong. What remains for us as northerners is, we must tell ourselves the truth,”he said.
He stressed that northern Nigerian shouldn’t pay lip service to issue of education and agriculture in the region anymore.
“It is mandatory for associations like the ACF, to call us as the elected leaders of our people to know what has been earmarked for the education, agriculture, industries etc. for the benefit of northerners.
“As at now, all the legacies left behind by the late Sardauna of Sokoto are either in comatose, or they are all dead entirely,” he said.
“For the north to progress one, education, must be revived so that the sons and daughters of the masses can obtain sound and qualitative education. Our ailing industries must be revived. Peasant farmers must be given subsidy.”
In his remark, chairman of ACF, Mr. Yero, who is also the father of the immediate past governor of the State, explained that the forum had a number of activities on skills acquisition, vocational training, capacity building and leadership development programmes in the three Senatorial zones of the State.
Mr. Yero urged Mr .Sani to support the programmes.