Uba Sani donates office complex to Arewa forum in Kaduna

Uba Sani, governor of Kaduna, has donated an office complex to the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF).

While presenting the title documents of the office complex to the leadership of the forum Kaduna on Monday at Sir Kashim Ibrahim House, Sani said the gesture was to ensure smooth and uninterrupted operations of the ACF national secretariat.

The governor commended the ACF for its contributions to national growth and unity.

He expressed the willingness of the Kaduna government to work with the forum to advance the interest of the north.

“We are confronted with difficult developmental and security questions,” the governor said.

“Criminal elements have laid siege to communities in the north, reversing our progress on multiple fronts. Our development deficits are scary and require urgent attention.

“ACF has a major role to play in building this required consensus for the best approach to tackle the multifaceted challenges facing northern Nigeria.

“ACF must make efforts to refocus the attention of our people. Let’s de-emphasise politics and focus on development.

“Let us gear our efforts towards overcoming the threats with all the energy we can muster.

“We are willing and ready to partner with the Arewa Consultative Forum on initiatives that will advance the interests of the people of the north. We want to help reposition the ACF to effectively play its coordinating role.

“I am today handing over to ACF the documents of the office complex donated by the Kaduna state government.”

On his part, Mamman Osuman, ACF national president, thanked the governor for the gesture while promising to promote a wider conversation around the current crises of insecurity bedevilling the north.

“For over 20 years, the ACF has engaged with the Kaduna state government on the acquisition and transfer of this property, which serves as our national headquarters,” Osuman said.

“It took the leadership and fairness of Your Excellency, Governor Uba Sani, to bring the process to a most satisfactory conclusion.

“Sir, we can never thank you enough. In addition to all of these, we hope, by this visit, to be able to promote a deeper and wider conversation around the current crises of insecurity and poverty ravaging northern Nigeria.”