President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has denied the allegation that the president is planning to relocate the federal capital territory from Abuja to Lagos.
Onanuga, who was reacting to the backlash against the President’s decision to relocate some departments of CBN and the cooperate headquarters of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), described the news as dishonest.
Taking to his official X (formerly Twitter) account, Onanuga said the decision to relocate some selected CBN offices and FAAN headquarters is strategic since those regulatory institutions are closer to the businesses they regulate in Lagos.
He said, however, that the move should not be misconstrued as an attempt from the President to relocate the FCT from Abuja to Lagos, adding that “Abuja has come to stay.”
Furthermore, he said that those pushing the narrative of moving FCT to Lagos are playing dirty politics, emphasizing that it is an attempt to pitch the north against the southern part of the country.
