ACF removes ex-minister as National chairman, names new chairman

By Godwin Isenyo



The Pan-Northern socio-political organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum, has removed a former Minister of State for Health, Chief Gabriel Aduku, as its national chairman.


Aduku was immediately replaced by Mamman Osman, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.


The PUNCH reports that the former Minister of Health under President Goodluck Jonathan,  Aduku, was in May 2023, appointed alongside others after the expiration of the tenure of Chief Audu Ogbeh as Chairman of the forum in March 2023.


Aduku, an architect by profession, was to serve for three years but the tenure was truncated.

The ACF’s National Publicity Secretary, Prof. Tukur Mohammed-Baba, in response to inquiries, said the former chairman was never elected but selected, justifying the removal.


He said, “My apologies but no ACF Chairman was ‘elected’ as such. A set of persons were selected and presented but were never inaugurated.


“The list was reviewed by ACF’s Leadership Selection Committee; it’s the final list that was now presented and approved by the joint assembly and inaugurated.


“Whosoever that wasn’t inaugurated today simply didn’t make it in the final list as presented by the Leadership Selection Committee.”


Meanwhile, the ACF on Tuesday, met to endorse the new leadership of the northern body which was approved and inaugurated


A communique released by Muhammad-Baba named Alhaji Bashir Dalhatu as the Board of Trustees Chairman while  Osman was named the National Chairman of the ACF.


Others are Deputy BoT Chairman, Senator Fred Orti, Vice-Chairman BoT, and Ambassador Ibrahim Mai Sule while the Secretary-General, Murtala Aliyu, retained his position.


In his acceptance speech, the new ACF’s chairman, according to the communique, paid tribute to the founding members of ACF.


The new NEC, he pledged, would  “reinvigorate a new ACF that will be different in outlook and impact as it seeks to contribute to the national discourse on issues relevant to the Nigeria Project.” (Punch)

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