By Citizenship Daily
A former spokesman to ex President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu has dismissed claims that a plot of land belonging to the former leader has been revoked in Abuja.
A statement issued on Thursday by Shehu titled “Nothing like loss of Buhari land in Abuja” cited the spread of “a lot of buzz in the media on the reported seizure of a piece of land by the authorities of the Federal Capital Territory Abuja, FCTA allegedly belonging to the former president Muhammadu Buhari.”
According to the statement, the former “President is personally not the owner of the said plot of the land which is allocated in the name a “Muhammadu Buhari Foundation.”
It said the Foundation was itself floated by “some utilitarian individuals around the former leader who, it must be said, went about it in a lawful manner with the support of a number of well-meaning persons.”
The statement said the concerned individuals ran into a roadblock in the land department of the FCDA which handed them an outrageous bill for the issuance of the certificate of occupancy, very high in cost that did not at all compare with the bills given to similar organizations.
“It may have been that this was not erroneous, but a deliberate mistake, making the revocation of land as no surprise to anyone.
“As a person, the former president has a plot of land to his name in Abuja.
“When he and his cabinet members were invited to fill the forms and obtain land during his tenure in office, he returned the form without filling it, saying that he already had a plot of land in the FCT, that those who did not have should be given. He, therefore, turned down the offer.
“So please let all those jumping up and down in the digital space talking about the rightfulness or the lack of it on the reported seizure of Buhari’s land in Abuja get their facts right, and stop dragging down the name of the former president,” Garba Shehu said in the statement
