The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has hailed the signing into law the Bill establishing the Northwest Development Commission by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The National Publicity Secretary of the forum, Prof. Muhammad-Baba, in a statement on Thursday, expressed the forum’s confidence that the law marked a new watershed in what will surely be a new lease of life for the people of the geopolitical zone.
He said, “ACF extends warm appreciation and gratitude to Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“The Deputy President of the 10th Senate of the Federation and indeed all who contributed to the enactment of the law also deserve our gratitude.”
It explained that the Northwest remained at the very bottom of all Nigeria’s developmental indices and living conditions, adding that the region continued to be devastated by insecurity, banditry and associated challenges, and indeed forming the ground zero of insecurity and terrorism.
“It remains to be said that all hands must be on deck to ensure that the new law will utilise the resources allocated to the Commission to make a visible impact on the lives of the people,” the forum advised.
ACF said that the law marked a new vista in the socio-economic and political development of the Zone.
It added, “All hands must be on deck to see to it that the teeming and largely agrarian people of this area will have the dark clouds of underdevelopment removed from their environment in its totality.”
