 Aroha Consultative Forum ACF has called on the Northern Region to minimize its involvement in politics and focus more on industrialization and agriculture. Speaking at its National Executive Council meeting in Kaduna, the outgoing Chairman of the Forum, Chief Audubi, said the North must think out of the box and focus more on economic development. Look, the North produces sesame seed, ginger, soya beans, zobo, which they call hibiscus. Now the Libyans are asking for popo, Egyptians are asking for plantains. We are now the largest rice producer in Africa, mainly in the North. We did it. In 2018, we took Egypt, and Egypt is asking us to export rice to them now. We can do it, but we have to organize ourselves. Tea will come because the disunity is a function of the scramble for power. Political power has become too important, and people don't think there's anything else. Oghby lamented that agriculture was in serious problem with the influx of banditry kidnapping among other security challenges in the region. So today is very difficult for another businessman to access credit. You have to go all the way to Lagos. When you do the interest rate is impossible, so we are not experiencing industrial growth. If we don't have industrial growth, we can't create jobs. Even agriculture is in trouble because of this endless kidnapping and killing, which is troubling us. We have to get the North back to business, and politics is not a business. It has never on its own grown in its society. So these are the concerns we have. That's why I'm so happy about what I saw in Sokoto. We're going to go to Kano and do the same, and encourage you young people who replace us. We are getting old, we will die and go. If we are leaving nothing behind, it's unfair. An architect Gabriel Aducu takes over from Oghby as the new chairman of ARAWA Consultative Forum. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.