President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and top officials of the Federal Government have been urged to stop campaigning for his re-election and focus on tackling the avalanche of challenges bedeviling the country.
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) stated this in a statement by its spokesperson, Professor Tukur Muhammad-Baba, to felicitate with the Muslim Ummah in Nigeria on the occasion of Eid-el-Kabir celebrations.
The ACF lamented the escalating insecurity, high cost of living, crises in the energy, health and education sectors, weak Nigerian currency and high food prices among other challenges.
It accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of giving priority to what it termed early campaign for Tinubu’s re-election instead of nipping in the bud the several challenges confronting the country.
The ACF said, “as we observed a year ago, the existential challenges above are symptomatic of a fundamental malaise in the political economy, calling for urgent public policy attention.
“Disappointingly, it would seem to be the case that the ruling party at the centre is more obsessed with unprecedented early campaigns, defections to it, and other manoeuvres for re-election in 2027, amidst putative celebrations of mid-term policy successes.”
