By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna
Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has expressed lamentation over the 2025 Easter, saying it was celebrated amid daunting socio-economic, political and security challenges worsening in the country.
The forum said monstrous corruption, selfishness on the part of leaders, nepotism and ostentatious lifestyles of political leaders were the bane of the country’s growth.
ACF in its Easter message, Monday, lamented that communities in Benue, Borno, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Katsina, Kaduna, Niger, Plateau, Zamfara and other states were daily visited with debilitating and senseless deaths, destruction, dislocation, tears and fractured inter-group relations.
The message signed by ACF National Publicity Secretary, Prof. Tukur Muhammad-Baba, called on Christian faithful in Nigeria to, in the spirit of Easter, pray for peace, security and economic recovery for Nigeria, for God’s intercession, for the leaders to be re-endowed with faith, love for ordinary citizens and the wisdom to chart Nigeria to the path to righteousness and glory.
It also prayed God to further re-energise the security agencies to crush the reigns of terror, criminality and insecurity that non-state actors had been subjecting the people to and which seek to destabilise Arewa communities and Nigeria at large.
