- Pix above(l-r): Peter Obi and Nyesom Wike
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Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, Nyesom Wike, has begun to make
good his threat on the first day of his official assumption of office, of avowed determination to revoke allocations of land found undeveloped in FCT.
Labour Party’s Presidential candidate in the February 25 general election, Mr Peter Obi, incidentally happened to be his first victim, as he revoked his own land allocation, among 166 others’.
Nyesom Wike, yesterday, revoked 167 plots of land in some uptown districts of the nation’s capital, Abuja.
Some of the revoked plots belonged to the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, former Senate Chief Whip, Udoma Udoma, former Cross River Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke, former Minister of Niger Delta, Ufot Ekaette and the late publisher of Leadership Newspaper, Sam Nda-Isaiah.
In a notice issued Thursday night, the FTC Administration said the plots were revoked due to the failure of their allottees to develop them.
“The Federal Capital Territory Administration hereby informs the general public that the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory has, in the exercise of the powers conferred on him under Section 28(5)(a) & (b) of the Land Use Act 1978, revoked the under-listed plots with names and titles as reflected in our records for continued contravention of the terms of development of the Right of Occupancy, to wit non-development,” the notice signed by the Permanent Secretary, Olusade Adesola, stated.
Some of the plots revoked in Maitama District A05 had names of former Cross River governor, Senator Liyel Imoke; Musa Egu, Hassan Hadejia and Ishaya Baba.
The State Online reports that Wike had on his first day in office as the Minister of the FCT vowed to revoke any land contravening the Abuja Land Use Act, no matter whose ox is gored. He had consequently given a two-week grace to allottees to pay their ground rents or risk revocation of their allocations.
Incidentally, most of the victims are political opponents of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) under which Wike is serving as FCT Minister. Will they allow the matter to lie low in the face of perceived political intimidation? Will they not? Only time shall tell./SHARE THIS
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