Presidency explains motion of FAAN, CBN dept to Lagos

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We’ve got seen how mischief-makers, bent on fueling unnecessary ethnic distrust, have intentionally misinterpreted the choice of the Central Financial institution of Nigeria to relocate its Division of Banking Supervision to Lagos and the directive of the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Improvement that the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) ought to relocate its head workplace again to Lagos.

We think about it essential to tell Nigerians that there is no such thing as a iota of reality within the interpretations given to the directives in some quarters and the unfounded claims and rumours that President Bola Tinubu is planning to relocate the Federal Capital again to Lagos.

These rumours, which first surfaced throughout the electioneering final yr, was sponsored by political opponents in search of all manners of weapons to forestall Asiwaju Tinubu from being elected as president by a bit of the nation.

These behind this renewed sordid narrative, utilizing the current determination of the CBN and FAAN as pretext to begin one other spherical of poisonous opposition are dishonest ethnic and regional champions, attempting to attract consideration to themselves.

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The standing of Abuja because the Federal Capital has come to remain. It’s backed by legislation.

The motion of FAAN, an company of Aviation Ministry, to Lagos, the place it was positioned earlier than former Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, moved it to Abuja over the last administration, doesn’t quantity to transferring the Federal Capital to Lagos.

The executive transfer ought to have ordinarily attracted scant consideration, as Lagos is the industrial capital and the hub of aviation enterprise in Nigeria. FAAN will nonetheless preserve some presence in Abuja. It isn’t a wholesale motion.

Equally, the motion of the Division of Banking Supervision of the CBN to Lagos shouldn’t set off any discord inside the polity. The division involved offers with industrial banks, nearly all of which have their headquarters in Lagos.

All these pushing this marketing campaign of falsehood and misinformation know they’re merely taking part in politics, albeit a harmful politics, to pit the North in opposition to the South.

There are various parastatals that aren’t based mostly in Abuja relying on their mandate. The headquarters of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Security Company (NIMASA) and Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), for instance, are in Lagos. In the identical vein, the headquarters of Nationwide Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) is in Lokoja, whereas that of the Nigerian Content material Improvement and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) was commissioned by former President Muhammadu Buhari is in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.

It have to be identified that these choices are purely administrative that shouldn’t be politicized by folks of goodwill and people who want our nation properly.

President Tinubu-led administration is working tirelessly to be simply and equitable to each part of the nation. We urge restraint on the a part of these whose inventory in commerce is to create all method of harmful rumours to distract each authorities from the noble goal of assembly the yearnings and aspirations of Nigerians.

Our residents need nothing however good governance that positively impacts their lives. Hearsay mongering is a pernicious disservice to this final expectation of our folks.