ACF disowns alleged SDP endorsement, reaffirms non-partisan stance

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has reiterated its long-standing presumption that it is simply a taste and socio-political organisation that does not prosecute successful partisan politics.

Prof. Tukur Muhammad-Baba, ACF Publicity Secretary, said successful a statement, “Members and officials of ACF are escaped to clasp idiosyncratic governmental beliefs and affiliations, but they bash not correspond the ACF successful specified capacities.”

He explained that the attraction of the forum had been drawn to a connection issued by idiosyncratic purported to beryllium speaking for the Social Democratic Party (SDP), claiming that the ACF was represented astatine a gathering held successful Ilesha, Osun State, connected March 31, 2026, to endorse their enactment and candidate.

According to Muhammad-Baba, “We privation to clarify that Alhaji Murtala Aliyu, Mutawallen Gombe, the Secretary General of the ACF attended the gathering astatine the invitation of Afenifere to witnesser their General Meeting successful Ilesha to further amended the narration betwixt the socio-cultural groups – ACF, Afenifere, and Northern Elders Forum – to sermon ways to determination the state forward.

“He was, therefore, astatine the gathering arsenic a typical of ACF, arsenic an observer. He was determination specifically to conscionable with Afenifere to sermon practice among the determination groups.”

He stated, “ACF truthful hereby region itself from the announcement made by the cause of th...