Some indigenes and residents of the FCT have condemned the appointment of a former Deputy Governor of Kogi State, Chief Edward Onoja, as the Public Complaints Commission (PCC) Commissioner representing the FCT and called for the immediate reversal of the appointment.
An elder statesman in the FCT, Danjuma Tanko Dara, who, on behalf of the natives, made the call Sunday in a press briefing, described the appointment as an abuse of constitutional rights and federal character and against the original inhabitants and residents of Abuja.
Dara warned that at a point where the country was presently boiling and everyone was thinking of how they could manage the planned nationwide protest situation, residents and natives of the FCT should not be angered or made to have a rethink that would jeopardise the peace and unity of the territory.
He said, “The first law of nature is self-defence. We cannot fold our arms as indigenous people of Abuja communities and be overrun. The little appointment that indigenous people of the FCT can boast of at any time, based on the constitution that the present administration used to prove that FCT be seen as one of the states of Nigeria, and it should operate like other states with full rights, has now been taken away by the same government.
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“We do not expect the same government to abuse the opportunity given to them to win the presidential election by bringing somebody from Kogi State who has never stayed in the FCT or contributed to the struggle and impose him on the people of the FCT.’’
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