By Dayo Johnson

Akure—THE Pan Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere weekend frowned at the position of the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, on the implementation of the national conference by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Last week the ACF said the North had no faith in the report and advised the President to ignore it.

But the Secretary General of the Afenifere, Basorun Sehinde Arogbofa pleaded with the President not to accede to the position of the ACF in the interest of a true federalism.

Arogbofa spoke with newsmen shortly after he was conferred with the title of the Asiwaju of Oka Akoko in Akoko South West local government area of Ondo state, the first history of the town.

Arogbofa wondered why the Northern leaders in the ACF are capitulating now despite the fact that ”leaders from northern part of the country were not left out in the conference.”

He said that the North was well represented at the confab and called on President Buhari to find time to read it.

The group expressed optimism that the reports will be implemented without delay if President Buhari finds time to read it.

According to him, the report contains so many recommendations that could turn around the country positively.

The group Secretary urged President Buhari to discountenance the ACF advice in the interest of the nation.

“Unless Arewa is now telling us that highly placed Nigerians like Alhaji Kumasi, Tanko Yakasai and some former governors from the area are no longer from the north, because   they recognize them as good people from the north.

“Except the ACF wants to tell us that the Northerners that attended the confab did not represent the interest of the north, that is when they can advise the President to ignore the confab reports.

“We took over 600 decisions on issues affecting this country and there was no single day we didn’t vote. We all agreed on these decisions.

“Do they want to tell me that somebody like  Alhaji Tanko Yakasai and former Inspector General of Police, Mr Coomassie who participated are not northerner? , I think it’s Nigeria psyche that once a government is out of office we start destroying that government, we can’t move forward with this.’’