Politics Is The Only Thriving Industry Left In The North – Arewa Consultative Forum

Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has remarked that politics is the only thriving industry left in the North.

Audu Ogbe, ACF Chairman, made the remark when he paid a courtesy visit to Babagana Zulum, Borno State Governor, over the attack by Boko Haram insurgents that resulted in the death of 43 farmers in the state, on Sunday.

Ogbe said the Northern states need to strengthen up on its economic empowerment in other to resolve the heightened level of insecurity.

“We are depressed, very depressed. And anyone of us, of our age who was not depressed he was not well born. Because we have nothing to leave behind for our children, and violence will not sustain us. The tragedy of the North today is that, the only industry left is politics, and politics alone has never grown any society,” he said.

“We have to re-grow Borno State, we have to re-grow the north, we have to re-grow Nigeria. We have no industries, agriculture has declined and our own children have turned to violence as a means of livelihood. Your Excellency, in ACF we have decided that we will not talk too much politics, we decided to focus on something else, we are going to start a program of developing small scale agro-industries across the north.”