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The Presidency has denied claims that the Tinubu authorities plans to relocate Nigeria’s capital from Abuja to Lagos.
Bayo Onanuga, the Particular Adviser on Data and Technique to President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, January 24, stated the President has no plans to maneuver the Federal Capital to Lagos.
In an announcement launched on his X deal with, Onanuga stated these peddling rumours are dishonest, ethnic and regional champions, attempting to attract consideration to themselves. He added that these pushing the marketing campaign of falsehood know they’re enjoying politics, albeit harmful politics to pitch the North in opposition to the South. In keeping with him, Abuja has come to remain as it’s backed by legislation.
His assertion adopted the current relocation of FAAN, a division of the Aviation Ministry, to Lagos. Onanuga stated there are numerous parastatals that aren’t primarily based in Abuja relying on their mandate, insisting that Administrative selections shouldn’t be politicised.
‘’President Tinubu has no plan in any respect to maneuver the Federal Capital to Lagos. The hearsay first surfaced throughout the marketing campaign final yr by opponents in search of all manners of weapons to cease him. We trashed it.
These peddling it anew are dishonest, ethnic and regional champions, attempting to attract consideration to themselves. Abuja has come to remain. It’s backed by legislation.
The motion of FAAN, a division of Aviation Ministry to Lagos, the place it was primarily based earlier than former minister Hadi Sirika moved it to Abuja over the past administration, doesn’t quantity to shifting the FCT to Lagos. The executive transfer ought to have attracted scant consideration, as Lagos is the business capital and the hub of aviation enterprise in Nigeria. FAAN ought to be no the place else however close to the trade it regulates. FAAN will nonetheless preserve some presence in Abuja, as it’s not a wholesale motion.
Equally, the motion of some departments of the CBN to Lagos shouldn’t set off any hoopla. The departments involved, together with the financial institution supervision division, are these coping with business banks, all with headquarters in Lagos. A regulator must be near the companies it regulates.
All these pushing this marketing campaign of falsehood know they’re enjoying politics, albeit a harmful politics to pit the North in opposition to the South.
There are lots of parastatals that aren’t primarily based in Abuja relying on their mandate. NIMASA is in Lagos. So is NPA. Nationwide Inland Waterways Authority( NIWA) is in Lokoja, not Abuja. Will the folks opposing the motion of FAAN and a few CBN departments need these businesses to be in Abuja, the place there isn’t a single port and no maritime exercise?
Administrative selections shouldn’t be politicized. Let it not appear like each time we’re briefly not on the helm of affairs, we create all manners of harmful rumours to distract from the larger image and emasculate an administration led by a southerner.
Let’s cease the soiled politics. We will’t be enjoying politics with all the things.”
