ACF picks Atiku as Northern candidate

ACF picks Atiku to become next President

By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor

Muhammad Yakubu, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) National Assistant Auditor, has confirmed Atiku Abubakar has been chosen as the Northern presidential candidate by the ACF leadership.

Yakubu said the ACF top brass comprising Ango Abdullahi, Sani Daura, and others

directed the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is the candidate of the North because he is the only one with the capacity and competence to rule Nigeria.

“ACF came to being as a result of certain happenings in the country,” Yakubu explained in Abuja.

“The emergence of ACF is to protect the Northern interest and so far, so good as we head to the polls in a couple of days, our elders, leaders in the likes of Alhaji Sani Zango Daura (the Danmasanin Daura) has given us a direction.

“Atiku is the candidate of the North and that is the direction we are going to follow.

“And that’s the candidates majority of northerners are going to vote for. So, this is one of the reason that I called for the press conference and if there are other issues you guys want clarification, I am ready to give you answers.”

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Reasons for supporting Atiku

“Of course, ACF is established to protect the interest of the North and where is Atiku from? And let me give you a background story.

“If you have been following the ACF history, you will discover that at each point in time that the county is at crossroads, ACF and the north usually come to stabilise the country,” Yakubu said, per reporting by Vanguard.

“The North supported [Olusegun] Obasanjo and he won; the North supported … Goodluck Jonathan and Jonathan won. Each time the North support anybody, not because that person is from the North.

“The North usually considers capacity and competence and integrity. These are the factors the North used to consider.

“The North is supporting Atiku not because Atiku is from the North. No, it’s because at this point in time, among the candidates we have now, it’s Atiku that has the capacity, the competence and the integrity and the reach out across the country.”