ACF crisis: We will not submit to external manipulation – NEC 

The National Executive Committee (NEC), Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) says the forum volition not taxable to outer manipulation arsenic its enactment situation enters its seventh day.

The forum’s suspended Board of Trustees (BoT) chairman, Alhaji Bashir Dalhatu, had announced that the tenure of 4 officials, including that of the Secretary-General, Murtala Aliyu, had expired connected March 10, 2026, and urged them to measurement down.

The ACF National Executive Committee, however, done its spokesperson, Prof. T. A. Muhammad-Baba, rejected the BoT’s decision, describing the enactment alteration arsenic illegal.

The police, up of the ACF NEC gathering last Wednesday, sealed disconnected the forum’s nationalist secretariat located connected Sokoto Road, Kaduna, alleging that the determination was to forestall a breakdown of instrumentality and bid betwixt the 2 factions wrong the organisation.

The NEC, on Wednesday, explained that it held a gathering astatine an undisclosed determination and suspended the BoT chairman, Alhaji Bashir Dalhatu, implicit alleged fiscal misconduct and law breaches, but the BoT members rejected the suspension.

The embattled Secretary-General, Murtala Aliyu, was on Sunday, accused by the BoT members of causing the situation and urged him to halt parading himself arsenic Secretary-General, insisting that his tenure had expired.

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