2023: ACF denies endorsing Jonathan, any presidential aspirant

The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has debunked reports it endorsed former President Goodluck Jonathan as its accepted candidate for the 2023 presidential election.

A chieftain of ACF, Alhaji Musa Saidu, said this when he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.

He said the group did not endorse Jonathan or any of the other presidential aspirants 

Saidu is the leader of the Arewa community in South-South and South-East. He was responding to reports in the media that a Coalition of Northern Groups has endorsed Jonathan for the 2023 election.

He said, “There was never a time the ACF or the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) endorsed a particular aspirant for the presidential election.

“I was to say clearly that no coalition or any group has the mandate to speak for the North.

“I actually read a statement credited to one Abdulazeez Suleiman, the spokesperson for the coalition claiming that the North has endorsed Jonathan for 2023.

“I want to say that this is not true.

“It’s absolutely misleading for a group to speak on behalf of the North without any mandate, doing this is a mischief and tantamount to creating confusion among interest groups.”