The Nigeria’s Former President Muhammadu Buhari has distanced itself from the revocation of a plot of land belonging to the Muhammadu Buhari Trust Foundation in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), saying he has no land to be revoked.
Penpushing reports that Buhari in a statement by his media aide, Garba Shehu, on Thursday, explained that he was not the owner of the Foundation named after him, adding that the Foundation was floated by some utilitarian individuals who went about it lawfully, but ran into a roadblock in the land department of the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA).
‘The Foundation was itself floated by some utilitarian individuals around him who, it must said, went about it in a lawful manner with the support of a number of well-meaning persons’, the statement emphasised
“But they ran into a roadblock in the land department of the FCDA which handed them an outrageous bill for the issuance of the certificate of occupancy, very high in cost that did not at all compare with the bills given to similar organisations. It may have been that this was not erroneous, but a deliberate mistake, making the revocation of land as no surprise to anyone’, the statement said.
Penpushing further reports that Shehu, however, affirmed that the former President, like any other person, has a plot in Abuja, stating that while in office and invited alongside his cabinet members to fill forms and obtain land during he returned the form without filling, stating that he already had a plot of land
“As a person, the former president has a plot of land to his name in Abuja. When he and his cabinet members were invited to fill the forms and obtain land during his tenure in office, he returned the form without filling it, saying that he already had a plot of land in the FCT, that those who did not have should be be given. He, therefore, turned down the offer,” the statement said.
‘So please let all those jumping up and down in the digital space talking about the rightfulness or the lack of it on the reported seizure of Buhari’s land in Abuja get their facts right, and stop dragging down the name of the former president’, Shehu emphasised.
Penpushing also reports that the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike, had ordered the revocation of the plot located in the Maitama District of Abuja alongside 762 others belonging to some prominent Nigerians and corporate organisations.
The order contained in two separate public notices issued by the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) equally gave 614 other plot owners two weeks to pay the outstanding bills for the Right of Occupancy (R-of-O) of the plots or risk losing them.
Penpushing reports that the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) in one of the notices, declared that Muhammadu Buhari Trust Foundation has an outstanding N1.23 billion to pay for plot number 4873.
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