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Congress of Nigeria has condemned the legal tussle between Mrs.
Patience Jonathan and her predecessor, Mrs. Turai Yar’Adua, over a plot
of land in Abuja.
ACN said, “A study in despicable sycophancy, insider
abuse, arbitrariness and manifestation of the culture of impunity all of
which have become the hallmarks of the administration of President
Goodluck Jonathan.”
In a statement on Thursday by its National Publicity
Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the ACN was not holding
brief for Yar’Adua.
It said, “It is clear from the court records that the
disputed land was first duly allocated to her non-governmental
organisation – Women and Youth Empowerment Foundation – by the Minister
for the Federal Capital Territory and a statutory right of occupancy
duly issued under the hand of the same minister.
“From the same court records, the organisation paid
all levies and dues running into several hundreds of millions of naira.
However shortly after, the FCT minister, without reasons, issued a
notice of revocation of the said property ostensibly on the grounds of
overriding public interest only to swiftly re-allocate the same land to
another non-governmental organisation, the African First Ladies Peace
Centre, believed to belong to the current First Lady, Dame Jonathan”.
The ACN also condemned the decision of the FCT
Minister, Bala Mohammed, to name an extension of the Maitama District
after Jonathan, “even when no such honour was bestowed on former heads
of states, especially those whose contributions to the development of
Abuja as the Federal Capital are glaring and undeniable.”
According to the ACN, the entire saga has in addition
revealed the “under belly of the gargantuan edifice of corruption of
the PDP-led government”.
The party added, “Where for instance does the office of the First
Lady source funds to buy land for over a quarter of a billion naira and
award a contract for its construction for a further sum of
N13,000,000,000?”
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