ACF not opposed to national dialogue – Spokesman

The Arewa Consultative Forum on Tuesday said it would support any dialogue that would bring about the strengthening of the Nigerian Project.
Anthony Sani, the ACF National Publicity Secretary, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Kaduna while reacting to the announcement by President Goodluck Jonathan on the setting up of an advisory committee on the proposed National Conference.
Sani said: “The ACF has made it clear long ago that it is not opposed to any national dialogue that can calm nerves and bring about the strengthening of the Nigerian project, provided such national dialogue would not take the form of a Sovereign National Conference.
“This is because a Sovereign National Conference amounts to vote of no confidence on our democracy and its institutions, which nobody or group has the right to do.
“So national dialogue through national conference, yes; through sovereign national conference, no.
“There is therefore nothing wrong in setting up a committee by the Federal Government to work out the form or modality of the proposed national dialogue.”
Sani, however, said that the ACF would take a final stand when the “the form and content” of the committee was unveiled to Nigerians by the Federal Government.