{"id":75130,"date":"2025-09-08T04:54:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T04:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75130"},"modified":"2025-09-08T04:54:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T04:54:18","slug":"fct-belongs-to-natives-not-all-nigerians-oida-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/08\/fct-belongs-to-natives-not-all-nigerians-oida-president\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT Belongs to Natives, Not All Nigerians -OIDA President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The President of the Original Inhabitants Development Association of Abuja (OIDA), Pastor Danladi Jeji, has reiterated that the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), belongs to its indigenous communities and not to all Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>Jeji was reacting to remarks by the Kano State Commissioner for Women Affairs, Hajiya Amina Sani Abdullahi, who had condemned the alleged deportation of northerners, including Kano indigenes, from the FCT.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the territory is historically made up of nine tribes and 878 communities that had existed for centuries before Abuja was declared Nigeria\u2019s capital in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, while natives have continued to peacefully accommodate other Nigerians, they remain the original and rightful owners of the land.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe federal government\u2019s pronouncement that the FCT is a land for all is an insult to the intelligence and sensibility of the indigenous people,\u201d Jeji said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola The President of the Original Inhabitants Development Association of Abuja (OIDA), Pastor Danladi Jeji, has reiterated that the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), belongs to its indigenous communities and not to all Nigerians. Jeji was reacting to remarks by the Kano State Commissioner for Women Affairs, Hajiya Amina Sani Abdullahi, who had condemned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":75131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75132,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75130\/revisions\/75132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}