The
Federal Government has said it will not demolish the national
secretariat of the New Peoples Democratic Party, being led by Abubakar
Baraje, if the owner of the building reverts to its original plan.
It said the owner of the building must stop using it as a commercial building.
Public Relations Officer of Development
Control, an agency under the Federal Capital Territory Development
Authority, Mr. Kalu Emetu, said this in an interview with reporters in
Abuja on Tuesday.
“We marked it in order for the owner to
revert it to its original status. When this is done, there would be no
demolition,” he said.
The FCTDA said that the building,
located at No. 4, Oyi River Crescent, Maitama District in the FCT, would
be demolished for violation of land use.
The Director of Development Control of
the FCT, Alhaji Yahaya Yusuf, said the location of the building was
meant strictly for residential purposes and that converting it to a
party secretariat had violated the Abuja master plan.
Yusuf said that it was not only the New
PDP secretariat that might be demolished, but about 202 other buildings
in the capital city and that all the affected buildings would be pulled
down if their owners refused to revert to the original plan.
But the National Publicity Secretary of the Baraje-led PDP, Chief Chukwuemeka Eze, challenged the FCT on the planned demolition.
Eze said, “Let them go ahead and
demolish the building. We can assure them that we are going to rebuild
the building with money from the Federal Government of Nigeria.
“We will sue them for wilful destruction
and they will be made to know that the building belongs to a Nigerian
citizen with constitutional rights to own property in any part of the
country, including the Federal Capital Territory.
“The FCT Minister, Senator Bala
Mohammed, is on an agenda to destroy President Goodluck Jonathan,
because under no circumstances would a cabinet minister embark on such
destructive mission.
“The minister has been mandated by some
forces to find a way of destroying President Jonathan and he has happily
embarked on that mission. That is why he is doing something that is not
expected of a normal person.”
He said the minister did not have the powers he was arrogating to himself.
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