The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has observed that the North remains essentially a work in progress. The forum noted that all the indices that track human progress, most of all poverty, illiteracy, health and security of life and property, tend to place the North at the deep end of the trough. The forum, therefore, dissociated itself from the planned nationwide protest against bad governance, believing that it was ill-timed and counterproductive. Chairman of the ACF, Mamman Osuman, who led other members of the forum on Monday during a visit to Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State, explained, “R…