Abuja natives demand FCT ministry portfolio

The indigenous people of the FCT under the umbrella of the Original Inhabitants Association of Abuja (OIDA) have appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to appoint Zaphaniah Jisalo as FCT minister and commended him for breaking the jinx in nominating a native as cabinet minister. In a statement, the OIDA President, Pastor Danladi Jeji, through […]

The indigenous people of the FCT under the umbrella of the Original Inhabitants Association of Abuja (OIDA) have appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to appoint Zaphaniah Jisalo as FCT minister and commended him for breaking the jinx in nominating a native as cabinet minister.

In a statement, the OIDA President, Pastor Danladi Jeji, through his spokesman, Sumner Shagari Sambo, suggested that the FCT minister’s portfolio should be rotated to other geopolitical zones under the present dispensation in case it was not feasible by the president’s calculation.

He noted that the last time a ministerial nominee was appointed from among the FCT indigenes was under the military government of General Ibrahim Babangida, whom he said appointed Major General Abdullahi Bagudu Mamman as Minister of Internal Affairs between 1990 and 1991.

Jeji noted that the feat would put Tinubu’s name in the annals of Nigeria’s political history as: “A true and undiluted progressive, a man of justice and fair play,” adding that Tinubu had by his action shown that he was a man who obeyed the rule of law.