Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, has denied rumors that he was planning to move the federal capital of Nigeria (FCT) from Abuja to Lagos State.
Rumor has it that Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State, has finalized plans to move the country’s capital back to Lagos 32 years after Ibrahim Babangida moved it there from Lagos to Abuja on December 12, 1991.
However, Tinubu denied the assertion and expressed disbelief that such a rumor could have been started in a statement released on Tuesday by Bayo Onanuga, the director of media and publicity for the APC presidential campaign committee.
“The All Progressives Congress Presidential Effort Council thus cautions Nigerians about the current insidious campaign in several parts of the country against our candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,” Onanuga stated in his statement. The opposition PDP and their proximate Labour Party have launched a multi-pronged desperate campaign of lies against Tinubu after using up all of their available smears and character assassination tactics against him.
One of the myths going around, particularly in the country’s North West, claims that Tinubu has plans to move the Federal Capital from Abuja to Lagos after succeeding President Muhammad Buhari on May 29, 2023. According to field reports, some elders employed by the Peoples Democratic Party are helping to spread this false information.
