By Sarah NEGEDU
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is said to be owing the Federal Capital Territory Administration, over N7.6 million in ground rents debt for the proposed new national headquarters of the party’s secretariat located at the Central Area of Abuja.
The FCTA Director of Land, Chijioke Nwankwoeze, revealed that the land title was revoked because the party is owing N7.6 million ground rent from 2006 to 2025.
Recall that Abuja Inquirer on Tuesday, reported that the FCTA had revoked the land titles on the plot located on plot 243, Cadastral Zone A00 over non-compliance with regulatory procedures.
The administration accused the party of continued contravention of the terms and conditions of grant of the Right of Occupancy by failing to pay the annual ground rents due on the property for twenty (20) years.
Nwankwoeze, who disclosed the figures to journalists after the FCT Executive Committee meeting on Wednesday, also dismissed claims that two of the parties properties were revoked.
The director explained that only the land title in the central area belonging to PDP was revoked, adding that the one in Wuse Zone 5 does not belong to the party.
“The land in Wuse Zone 5 which currently occupies its national headquarters does not belong to PDP. It belongs to one Mr Samaila Ofi, and the revocation notice had been served on him in his Kaduna address, the address on our record.
“We did not serve any such notice to the PDP. The only one we served on them was the one in the central area. You don’t serve revocation notice on a tenant or an occupier; you serve on the title holder,” he said.
Nwankwoeze explained that Ofi bought the property from Wadata and got his papers registered by way of assignment, adding that the property was owing a 28-year ground rent amounting to N2.85 million.
He stated that a total of 4,794 land titles had been revoked by the FCT minister, adding that PDP was just one of them.
