According to the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, the party’s presidential candidate, has no plans to move the federal capital from Abuja back to Lagos as some opposition parties have suggested.
This was said in a statement released by Bayo Onanuga, Director of Media and Publicity for the APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), on Tuesday in Abuja.
The late Head of State Murtala Muhammad’s administration established the Federal Capital Territory, sometimes called Abuja, in 1976. However, the federal government moved entirely to the new capital in 1991, under President Ibrahim Babangida’s military rule.
“The APC PCC now notifies Nigerians of the most recent nefarious campaign against our candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, that has been launched in several regions of the nation.
“The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and their surrogate Labour Party have started a multi-pronged desperate campaign of misinformation against Tinubu after exhausting their supply of smears and character assassination against him.
According to a myth spreading, particularly in the country’s North-West, Tinubu has plans to move the Federal Capital Territory from Abuja to Lagos after succeeding President Buhari on May 29, 2023.
According to field reports, certain elders employed by the PDP are helping to spread this false information, Mr. Onanuga claimed.
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The APC, he claimed, was stunned that some people could invent such lies in the name of politics, intending to mislead the party’s base of support in that region of the nation.
He claimed that Mr. Tinubu had never considered such a strategy and would never take such blatantly unconstitutional action.
The commercialization of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited by the President Buhari-led APC government has also been misrepresented, he claimed.
According to Mr. Onanuga, the reality is that President Buhari did not privatize NNPC as Atiku Abubakar, the PDP presidential candidate, had intended.
In contrast, he said, the president had turned the organization into a business that was owned by all levels of government in accordance with the Petroleum Industry Act.
“In due course, the company will be able to declare and distribute dividends to all of its shareholders, much like Saudi Aramco and Petrobas do in Brazil.
“Asiwaju Tinubu, President Buhari’s predetermined successor, will carry on the policies of the Buhari administration. Contrary to Atiku, Tinubu does not intend to sell NNPC to any of his friends or associates, he claimed.
