CITY NEWS FCT minister has given natives ‘Looters ready to take advantage of appointments – APC chair IPOB crisis’
The chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the FCT, Alhaji Usman Abdulmalik, has said the FCT Minister, Alhaji Muhammad Musa Bello, has given natives more appointments than the past PDP administration.
Abdulmalik stated this in an interview with our reporter, while reacting to criticisms from some groups that described the minister’s recent appointment of secretaries and political ‘lopsided.
He said since the inception of FCT administration, the present APC-led government under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari has considered the natives in terms of political appointments, adding that those criticising the appointments should have a rethink and check the records to confirm the people that were appointed. mandate aides as
“If you may recall, the INEC commissioner, Halilu, is a native. We also have two ambassadors who are also natives,” he said.
He therefore expressed hope that as the minister considered carrying out appointments in the next few weeks, the natives will again be carried along.
The APC chairman solicited for the support and cooperation of residents and natives of the territory for the minister in order to provide more democratic dividends to them. The chairman of Gwagwalada Area Council, Alhaji Adamu Mustapha, has said those taking advantage of the clash between IPOB and the army in the South-east to cause tension in the council are only targeting to loot the shops of Igbo traders in the area.
Speaking during a joint stakeholders meeting which had security agencies in attendance at the council secretariat on Monday, he said “The Igbos should know that people are eyeing the stock of goods in your shops to loot in case of any breakdown of law and order.”
He noted that though the Igbo agitation is a national issue, it had been laid to rest by the late Odumegwu Ojukwu who championed Biafra.
The chairman therefore warned that those spreading rumours in order to create tension between Igbos and other ethnic groups in the area would not be tolerated.
City News learnt that there was tension in Gwagwalada last Friday, following rumour by some individuals of a clash between the natives and Igbo traders in the council, which caused panic and forced some traders to lock up their shops.