Particular Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Info and Technique, Bayo Onanuga, has debunked a rumor that the President is planning to maneuver the Federal Capital Territory to Lagos.
This assertion got here after a rumor surfaced on social media that the President is planning to maneuver the FCT to Lagos State after a division underneath the Ministry of Aviation, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, moved a few of its departments to Lagos .
Onanuga talked about this on his official X account (previously Twitter), noting that the rumor began through the 2023 normal elections and was quashed.
He mentioned: “President Tinubu has no plan in any respect to maneuver the federal capital to Lagos. The rumor first surfaced through the marketing campaign final 12 months, when opponents had been on the lookout for every kind of weapons to cease him. We destroyed it.
“Those that are proclaiming it once more are dishonest, ethnic and regional champions, making an attempt to attract consideration to themselves. Abuja has come to remain. It’s backed by regulation.
“The relocation of FAAN, a department of the Ministry of Aviation, to Lagos, the place it was primarily based earlier than former Minister Hadi Sirika moved it to Abuja over the last administration, doesn’t quantity to relocating the FCT to Lagos. The executive transfer ought to have attracted little consideration as Lagos is the business capital and heart of the aviation sector in Nigeria. FAAN shouldn’t be anyplace aside from close to the sector it regulates. FAAN will nonetheless keep some presence in Abuja as it isn’t a large-scale motion.”
Onanuga additionally defined that the relocation of some branches of the CBN to Lagos shouldn’t result in one other outbreak, noting that the branches work straight with business banks all of which have their headquarters in Lagos and that regulators ought to be near the businesses stand that they management.
He said: “Anybody who promotes this marketing campaign of falsehood is aware of that they’re doing politics, despite the fact that it’s a harmful coverage to pit the North towards the South.
“There are various parastatals that aren’t primarily based in Abuja relying on their mandate. NIMASA is positioned in Lagos. So is NPA. The Nationwide Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) is positioned in Lokoja, not Abuja. Will the individuals opposing the motion of FAAN and a few CBN items need these companies to return into Abuja the place there is no such thing as a port and no maritime exercise?
“Administrative choices shouldn’t be politicized. Don't let it appear that after we are briefly not on the helm of affairs, we create every kind of harmful rumors to distract from the larger image and negate a Southern-led authorities. Let's cease the soiled politics. We will't play politics with every thing.”
