THE North is not afraid of the sustained pressure from the South to change the workings of the government in Nigeria through restructuring or agitations for secession, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has said.
The chairman of the Board of Trustees of the forum, Ambassador Shehu Malami, who stated this in an interview with Saturday Tribune in Kaduna, maintained that the campaigns for restructuring and resource control and the demands for the creation of the republics of Biafra and Oduduwa by sections of the country have never caused the North to panic.
The chairman of the ACF, Audu Ogbeh, had recently asked members of the two chambers of the National Assembly from the North to be on alert for the possible presentation of a bill on restructuring before the National Assembly.
Ogbeh cautioned the lawmakers to note that from the body language of President Muhammadu Buhari, he would not yield to the agitation but the struggle for restructuring and other demands might be fought in the National Assembly.
Speaking in the same vein, Malami, who holds the traditional title of the Sarkin Sudan of Wurno, said that the lawmakers and other critical stakeholders in the North had been put on alert.
“We should seriously be on our guard to repel any untoward moves from any group on the region.
“We need proper preparations even if dialogue is preferred against any form of physical confrontation,” he warned.
According to the former envoy to South Africa, the call by the ACF chairman, Ogbeh, is apt and the Northern lawmakers should not be caught napping. “We need to dwell on these issues, on a serious note,” Malami stressed.
He, however, said the ACF BoT was in support of the call to interface with Ohanaeze, South South People’s Conference, Oduduwa and Afenifere as being proposed by the National Executive Council of the ACF.
According to him, the interface will allow all the groups to really understand one another and “this would pave the way for a genuine and honest conversation that would ultimately be the foundation for what type of Nigeria we all want to see.”
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