FCTA seals PDP headquarters in Abuja

The headquarters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Wuse area of Abuja has been sealed off by the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA).

Neptune Prime gathered that officials of the FCTA arrived at the place around 2:05pm on Monday and demanded to meet with those in charge before proceeding to seal off the political office.

Recall that on Friday, FCTA, under the instruction of the Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike announced that from Monday (today) it would begin to take possession of the revoked lands over non-payment of Ground Rent, for between 10 and 43 years.

The land on which the permanent headquarters of the major opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is located in Abuja is one of the affected lands as it was earlier revoked in March over non-payment of ground rent for many years.

Interestingly, FCT Minister Wike is an official member of the PDP.

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During a press briefing on Friday by the FCT Minister’s Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, Lere Olayinka; Director of Land Administration, Chijioke Nwankwoeze, and Director, Department of Development Control, Mukhtar Galadima, the minister said; “ownership of the revoked 4,794 properties in the Central Area, Garki I and II, Wuse I and II, Asokoro, Maitama and Guzape districts, had already reverted to the FCTA, and as from Monday, next week, the government will begin to exercise its rights of ownership on the affected landed properties.

“As usual, this will be done without consideration as to ownership of the affected landed properties. It will be purely in line with extant laws and regulations guiding the process.”

In a related development, the FCTA equally sealed off other major businesses including Access Bank in Wuse Market and a Total petrol station in the same area.

In a letter on Access Bank, Chijioke Nwankwoeze, director of land administration at the FCTA, cited continued default in ground rent payment as reason for the revocation.

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) office in Zone 5 was also closed for the same reasons.

The FIRS is said to owe ground rent of 25 years.

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