By Njadvara Musa (Maiduguri) and Rauf Oyewole (Bauchi)
Arewa Concerned Forum (ACOF) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has dissociated from Tinubu-Shettima presidential campaigns in the country.
The forum is an amalgamation of 200 support groups and influencers of the APC in the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), The Guardian gathered.
Bola Tinubu is the APC presidential candidate, while Kashim Shettima is his running mate.
ACOF’s National Chairman, Bello Isa, and Secretary, Muhammad Suleiman, disclosed, yesterday, in Maiduguri: “We have resolved to dissociate from delivering six million votes to the APC presidential candidates in the 2023 general elections.”
The “dissociation decision” from the Tinubu-Shettima presidential campaign activities was taken on December 27, 2022, at a general meeting with the various support groups in Kaduna, Kaduna state, he added.
According to him, this is because of the disregard for the forum’s political affairs by the APC national body.
MEANWHILE, a Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Support Group has taken a three-day free medical outreach to Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Azare, Bauchi State, to treat over 3,100 vulnerable children and the aged for various ailments.
At the medical outreach, which is tagged ‘Jigi Jagaban’, commenced on Tuesday and scheduled to end today, beneficiaries were screened and treated on eye problems, hypertension, diabetes and other general ailments.
The Chief Medical Director of the FMC, Dr. Abubakar Katagum, said that 100 cataract surgical operations had been done, while over 3,000 others were attended to.
“I’m honestly disturbed over the trend of eye problems, particularly among the poor, who cannot afford treatment. We call on non-governmental organisations and corporate bodies to assist us. That will be helpful,” he said.
Source: The Guardian
