Former President Muhammadu Buhari once rejected an offer of land in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) during his tenure.
Buhari’s spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, said this in a statement in Abuja on Thursday.
He was reacting to reports that a piece of land belonging to the former president was seized by the FCT authorities.
” As a person, the former president has a plot of land to his name in Abuja,” he said.
Shehu said Buhari rejected the offer of land when he and his cabinet members were invited to fill forms for allocation.
He said the former president had insisted that he already had land in the FCT, adding it should be given to those who did not have.
” President Buhari is personally not the owner of the said plot of land which is allocated in the name of “Muhammadu Buhari Foundation,” he stated.
Shehu said the foundation was itself floated lawfully by…
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