Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, said the President has no plans to move the Federal Capital to Lagos.

Onanuga said those peddling rumour are dishonest, ethnic and regional champions, trying to draw attention to themselves.

He claimed that those pushing the campaign of falsehood know they are playing politics, albeit dangerous politics to pitch the North against the South.

According to him, Abuja has come to stay as it is backed by law.

His statement followed the recent relocation of FAAN, a department of the Aviation Ministry, to Lagos.

Onanuga said there are many parastatals that are not based in Abuja depending on their mandate, insisting that Administrative decisions should not be politicized.

“President Tinubu has no plan whatsoever to move the Federal Capital to Lagos. The rumour first surfaced during the campaign last year by opponents looking for all manners of weapons to stop him. We trashed it.

“Those peddling it anew are dishonest, ethnic and regional champions, trying to draw attention to themselves. Abuja has come to stay. It is backed by law.

“The movement of FAAN, a department of the Aviation Ministry to Lagos, where it was based before former minister Hadi Sirika moved it to Abuja during the last administration, does not amount to moving the FCT to Lagos. The administrative move should have attracted scant attention, as Lagos is the commercial capital and the hub of aviation business in Nigeria. FAAN should be nowhere else but near the industry it regulates. FAAN will still maintain some presence in Abuja, as it is not a wholesale movement.

“Similarly, the movement of some departments of the CBN to Lagos should not trigger any hoopla. The departments concerned, including the bank supervision department, are those dealing with commercial banks, all with headquarters in Lagos. A regulator ought to be close to the businesses it regulates.

“All those pushing this campaign of falsehood know they are playing politics, albeit a dangerous politics to pit the North against the South.

“There are many parastatals that are not based in Abuja depending on their mandate. NIMASA is in Lagos. So is NPA. The National Inland Waterways Authority( NIWA) is in Lokoja, not Abuja. Will the people opposing the movement of FAAN and some CBN departments want those agencies to be in Abuja, where there is no single port and no maritime activity?

“Administrative decisions should not be politicized. Let it not look like whenever we are temporarily not at the helm of affairs, we create all manners of dangerous rumours to distract from the bigger picture and emasculate an administration led by a Southerner.

“Let’s stop the dirty politics. We can’t be playing politics with everything.”

EreluRoz:
We know that but leave all headquarters to be in Abuja, it's safer.

Lagos is already overcrowded

illicit:


Safer ke

See ehn, there are some parastatal offices located in Bwari or Gwagwalada

I stay in Kubwa and I do have some businesses to do there as an education Consultant

I have been scared to near those places

That's the headquarters of kidnapping

EreluRoz:
If Nigeria goes to war today then you'll understand better why I said it's safer in Abuja.
Though the kidnapping in Abuja is on the rise

EreluRoz:
If Nigeria goes to war today then you'll understand better why I said it's safer in Abuja.
Though the kidnapping in Abuja is on the rise

ZKOSOSO:
Pls Tinubu gradually relocate this FCT to Lagos and Oyo axis ASAP

The almajiri cretins can bark and hurl as much as the tiny energy they still have in their system can carry them....
We don't care. Next move NNPC to Port Harcourt or Benin city. Nothing go happen

SEC has no business in Abuja. Move am go Lagos

christejames:
As an Omoluabi, I have no issues with moving some vital agencies and departments to Eko because Lagos is the face of Nigeria outside the continent and it will enable to agencies and departments to grow and develop in leaps and bounds as they will be rubbing shoulders with same agencies and departments across the globe cool



Eku se, Jagaban!




















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