MINISTER of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Bala Mohammed, has
defended the action of the FCT administration in revoking the plot of land
allocated to the former First Lady, Hajiya Turai Yar’Adua’s Non-Governmental
Organisation (NGO), Women and Youth Empowerment Foundation (WAYEP) and
restoring same to its original institutional owners, the African First Ladies
Peace Mission for the building of its secretariat in Abuja.
Meanwhile,
a social crusader and erstwhile Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Abubakar
Tsav, has condemned the revocation of the land earlier allocated to WAYEP.
Mohammed,
yesterday also faulted the statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the
Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Alhaji Lai Mohammed, at the weekend, claiming
that the FCT minister took ‘a choice plot’ from WAYEP and reallocated it to the
incumbent First Lady, Patience Jonathan’s NGO, African First Ladies Peace
Mission.
The FCT
minister described Lai Mohammed’s statement as not only misleading, but
blackmail against Patience Jonathan and the FCT administration.
According
to the minister in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media, Nosike
Ogbuenyi, there is no ‘scandal’ whatsoever with regard to the altruistic
corrective measure by the FCT administration to restore the land to the
original allottee, the African First Ladies Peace Mission.
He said
the FCT administration deserved kudos not umbrage for its effort in retrieving
the land from a private NGO and returning same to its original owner, the
African First Ladies Peace Mission for the development of its continental
secretariat in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city.
He further
pointed out that the African First Ladies Peace Mission was neither owned nor
sponsored by the current First Lady of Nigeria, Patience Jonathan, as wrongly
claimed by the ACN publicity secretary, adding that she only inherited the
project from her predecessor and would definitely handover same to her successor
as First Lady.
Tsav also
lauded Governor Tanko Al-Makura of Nassarawa State for resisting the pressure
to dump his party, Congress for Progressive Change for the Peoples Democratic
Party.
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