National dialogue: Delegates should come from the Local Governments -ACF
The pan northern group, Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has said that delegates to the proposed National Conference should be drawn from the 744 local government areas across the country.
The ACF said it doubted the credibility of the proposed dialogue due to the outcome of previous conferences organised by government but it urged all northerners to participate in the conference.
“The ACF urged the government to use local government areas as constituency units for representation to the conference as one delegate per local government area,” it said in a communiqué after the joint meeting of its Board of Trustees and the National Executive Council in Kaduna on Wednesday.
The meeting of the two organs was chaired by Lt. Gen. Jeremiah Useni (retd.).
In the communiqué signed by the ACF National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Anthony Sani, the group said apart from the national 
conference, members also deliberated on the ACF Annual General Meeting.
The communiqué reads, “The meeting considered the decision of the Federal Government to convoke a national conference/national dialogue against the backdrop that the decisions of past conferences are yet to be implemented by the appropriate authorities.
“ACF therefore expressed doubt that the outcome of the current exercise would not suffer the same fate.
“However as a mark of good faith in the hope that real issues of real concern to real Nigerians may be discussed, ACF urged northerners to participate in the national conference/national dialogue in the interest of national solidarity that goes with relative pluralism. Towards this end, only delegates with proven intelligence and patriotic courage should be encouraged and supported to attend the conference.”
