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•Asks: What did the bombing achieve?
•Optimistic that a viable Nigeria is possible
By Ibrahim Hassan-Wuyo
Professor Tukur Muham++mad Baba, National Publicity Secretary of the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, speaks on the achievements, challenges and future of the organisation, Nigeria’s insecurity and relations with other socio-cultural groups. Excerpts:
About two decades after the establishment of the ACF, can you say the organisation has achieved its objectives, or is there still work to be done?
In general terms, I think the ACF has stayed the course with regard to its vision and mission. If those constitute its objectives, then it has largely succeeded. The ACF was established as a forum for dialogue and collective response to shared issues affecting the diverse northern-based socio-cultural groups, united largely by political geography. To that extent, the ACF has gone far in achieving its objectives.
One clear indicator is that the organisation is firmly established,
