The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) sacked its Chairman, Chief Gabriel Aduku, and replaced him with Mamman Mike Osman while it inaugurated a new National Executive Council (NEC) members at its general meeting, recently in Kaduna.
A communique signed by the National Publicity Secretary, Professor Tukur Muhammad-Baba, explained that “a joint meeting of the Board of Trustees (BOT) and the National Executive Council (NEC) of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) met at Kaduna recently, to discuss matters of interest to the organisation”
It said “Foremost before the meeting was the endorsement of a new leadership for ACF, which was approved and inaugurated”
The newly inaugurated officials are the Chairman, Board of Trustees (BOT), Alhaji Bashir Mohammed Dalhatu; Deputy Chairman BOT, Senator Fred Orti; Vice Chairman BOT, Ambassador Ibrahim Mai Sule, Chairman NEC, Mamman Mike Osman, and Secretary General, Alhaji Murtala Aliyu.
The Forum’s spokesman said: “The new Chairman, ACF’s NEC, Mr. Mamman Mike Osman, in his acceptance speech, paid tribute to the founding members of ACF. The new NEC, he (Osman) pledged, will reinvigorate a new ACF that will be different in outlook and impact as it seeks to contribute to national discourse on issues relevant to the Nigeria Project”
Professor Muhammed-Baba, the Publicity Secretary, further stressed that “the meeting also received a goodwill message from the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. George Akume who also urged the ACF to provide the needed leadership for ushering a new Northern Nigeria in its bid to overcome the multi-faceted social and economic problems, as well as for unity”
