On Wednesday, the Presidency said that the Bola Tinubu administration had no intention of moving Nigeria’s Federal Capital back to Lagos, where it had previously been.
It characterized these hints as the work of individuals it referred to as “mischief-makers,” who were motivated by “fueling needless ethnic mistrust.”
This came after the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development ordered that the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria’s head office be moved back to Lagos, and the Federal Government recently decided to move the Department of Banking Supervision of the Central Bank of Nigeria to Lagos.
However, in a statement issued under the signature of Ajuri Ngelale, the President’s Special Advisor on Media and Publicity, the Presidency refuted the theory that these actions are a component of the FCT’s relocation to Lagos.
“We feel compelled to notify Nigerians that there is not the slightest degree of veracity in the interpretations accorded to the directives in certain quarters and the baseless allegations and rumors that President Bola Tinubu is planning to relocate the Federal Capital back to Lagos,” said Ngelale.