Vice-President Kashim Shettima has charged the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) to resist mischief makers trying to divide Nigeria, urging them to stand in solidarity with the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
According to him, “there is no better time than now for the leaders of the North to stand together as one” in support of efforts by the Tinubu administration to wriggle the nation out of the economic and social morass it was hitherto enmeshed in.
The Vice President made the call on Wednesday during an audience with a delegation from the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) led by its Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Alhaji Bashir Dalhatu, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Shettima told members of the Northern apex socio-cultural organisation to “resist the antics of a few mischief makers to fragment the unity of Nigeria.”
He drew the distinction between greed and grievance as propounded by those he described as “architects of modern conflict,” observing that, “while some agitations arise from genuine grievances seeking justice and fairness, others are fuelled by greed by the quest to exploit disorder for selfish gain.”
He said the task before the Tinubu administration is to spot the difference between genuine grievance and greed, with a view to embracing “legitimate calls for equity and inclusion, and to isolate the forces that seek to profit from chaos.
