January 20, 2024 NewsOrient
News Update

The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, (AYCF), has warned the Federal Government of Nigeria against carrying out it’s plans to relocate some departments of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, from Abuja to Lagos.

The group warned, through the National President of AYCF, Yerima Shettima, that the planned relocation “would undermine national unity, cause economic setbacks, and regional imbalance.”

AYCF said further that the relocation was “a threat to the status of Abuja as the capital city and could have negative implications.”

In a statement, quoted by Daily Post, Shettima said “Abuja was deliberately chosen as the capital to promote national unity and decentralise power. Any agenda that seeks to tamper with this arrangement will be fiercely resisted by AYCF and its supporters.

“The Northern elite must not be silent when the political and economic viability of Northern Nigeria is at stake and well-meaning Nigerians should speak out against this emerging arbitrariness.”

~ NewsOrient