The Northern Youth Assembly (NYA) has faulted the suspension of the chairman of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) Mamman Mike Osuman SAN over utterances against President Bola Tinubu.
The assembly worried that rather than defending the interest of the region, ACF had reduced itself to a mere protecting agent of Tinubu’s administration.
NYA however demanded an immediate lift of Osuman’s suspension in the interest of the North while threatening to take over the Kaduna office of ACF.
The assembly expressed the concern in a statement signed by NYA President Ali Mohammed Idris and National Secretary Abdulhafiz Garba.
According to NYA, “It is rather shameful that the ACF is presumably expected to be on the side of the masses but would resort to such incivility and undemocratic action, against one of its respected leaders simply for speaking on behalf of the masses against the increasing anti people’s policies of Tinubu’s Government, the worst in the Nigerian democratic journey so far.
“The shameful action of Arewa Consultative Forum, through the BOT is a clear indication that ACF is not for the Arewa masses who bear much of the brunt of these anti-human policies, which has pushed millions of Nigerians into abject poverty.
“We received with utmost shock, that was jointly signed by Alhaji Bashir Muhammad Dalhatu (Wazirin Dutse) and Alhaji Murtala Aliyu (Matawallen Gombe), ACF Board of Trustees chairman and Secretary General, respectively, was indeed the highest order of disregard to the plight of the masses, ever executed by the Forum.”
