Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) through the coordinator of Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC), Umar Shuaibu, has said that the incoming administration of President-elect Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu will continue with aggression, the achievements of outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari in the development of the FCT.
Shuaibu who made this known while speaking with journalists in Abuja yesterday, said there is a lot of infrastructure projects that were built by the current administration which would have taken double the period that the APC took to achieve them if it were the previous governments.
He bragged that Tinubu is going to complement and make sure that they continue on the same speed, same tenacity, and same standard to which they provide infrastructure.
“Asiwaju being the type of person that we know, being his (Tinubu’s) antecedent, we know it’s going to be pursued with more aggression to make sure that we give more dividends of democracy,” he said.
The coordinator hailed the proven governance attitude of Tinubu, who is a former two-term governor of Lagos State, saying he will bathe the country with projects mixed with good governance.
He said the achievement of the FCTA could not have been possible without the strong backing and political will show by the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Bello.
The coordinator revealed that remarkable progress was made in ensuring strict adherence to the sacrosanct Abuja Master Plan, the guideline document that stipulates irreducible standards for developing the nation’s capital.
He said that sticking strictly to the guideline has eliminated or drastically reduced massive loss of lives from flooding occasioned by persons who in the past under the PDP government, were left to erect illegal structures on unauthorized areas, including water channels, thus blocking them in the process.
Aside from that, he pointed to the formulation of the Abuja Parks Policy 2019 which enforcement has led, among others, to a sharp fall in the number of parks and leisure places being used for purposes other than the one statutorily authorised.
