Leadership (Abuja)

Nigeria: 'My Mission is to Liberate FCT Natives' - Dara

Immediate past Chairman of Bwari Area Council in the Federal Capital Territory, Hon. Isah Dara Bwari has disclosed that the major reason for his aspiration to the House of Representatives is to correct the injustices not only against the original Abuja indigenes, but for the generality of all Nigerians living in the FCT.

Hon. Bwari who is aspiring to be elected into the AMAC/Bwari federal constituency of the FCT stressed that it is only a true son of the territory that can truly make a case, with sincerity for the indigenes and residents alike.

"Government in the past has made it optional that anybody, who wants to remain in the FCT as an indigene, can remain and that is why many of us have remained. However, there are many things which the federal government was supposed to have done for the original indigenes that have not been done.

"I will raise those issues when I get to the National Assembly for the benefit of all. We have witnessed a lot of discriminations against the original indigenes of the FCT, since the creation of the FCT. For instance, no indigene has ever been made even a junior minister, or a permanent secretary, and we are equally not allowed to elect our mayor in the FCT", he said.

He advised Nigerian politicians to work hard to win the votes and confidence of the electorate in order to emerge as the credible choices of the electorate, adding that the days of godfatherism in the nation's politics were over, as only the electorate now decide who wins elections.

Tagged: Nigeria, West Africa

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