Buhari ‘s land: Wike’s FCDA made deliberate mistake to justify revocation, says Garba Shehu
By Ishaya Ibrahim
Garba Shehu, a former spokesman to former President Muhammadu Buhari, has denied the report that the land revoked in Abuja personally belonged to the ex-President.
According to Garba Shehu in a statement posted on his X account, he said the land in question belongs to the Muhammadu Buhari Foundation, although the promoters were persons who are close to the president.
Shehu explained that the said revocation of the land appears to be a deliberate ploy by the FCDA who created the justification by giving an outrageous bill for the acquisition of Certificate of Occupancy. The foundation hit a brick wall in resolving the problem, hence the revocation.
Shehu’s statement reads: “NOTHING LIKE LOSS OF BUHARI LAND IN ABUJA As with anything Buhari—and there is no surprise in this at all—there is a lot of buzz in the media on the reported seizure of a piece of land by the authorities of the Federal Capital Territory Abuja, FCTA, allegedly belonging to former President Muhammadu Buhari. The former President is personally not the owner of the said plot of the land which is allocated in the name a “Muhammadu Buhari Foundation.”
“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. 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 organizations.
“ It may have been that this was not erroneous, but a deliberate mistake, making the revocation of the land no surprise to anyone. 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 given. He, therefore, turned down the offer. 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.-
