North will only back 2027 candidates who protect region’s interests – ACF

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Northern Nigeria’s foremost socio-cultural group, has declared that the region will only support candidates in the 2027 general elections who are committed to advancing and defending Northern interests.

Speaking at the opening of the ACF Board of Trustees meeting in Kaduna on Wednesday, the forum’s BOT chairman, Alhaji Bashir Dalhatu, said the North would no longer offer blanket support to politicians or political parties without clear commitments to the region’s development and welfare.

“Northern Nigeria will remain faithful not to particular politicians or political parties but to those who care about our regional interests and are willing to promote and protect them,”…