{"id":76043,"date":"2025-10-03T12:37:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76043"},"modified":"2025-10-03T12:37:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:37:01","slug":"nigeria-65-fct-natives-decry-marginalization-by-successive-governments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/03\/nigeria-65-fct-natives-decry-marginalization-by-successive-governments\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria @65: FCT Natives Decry Marginalization by Successive Governments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As Nigeria marks 65 years of independence, natives of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), say they have no reason to celebrate, accusing successive governments of marginalization, oppression, and dehumanization.<\/p>\n<p>Hajiya Farida Suleiman Odangi, a pioneer executive of the Coalition of Abuja Indigenous Associations, made the remarks on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>She lamented that successive administrations have consistently sidelined the original inhabitants of the FCT while using their ancestral land to enrich others.<\/p>\n<p>Odangi described the situation as \u201cworrisome,\u201d noting that the identity of the indigenous people has been eroded through systemic exclusion and government-backed oppression.<\/p>\n<p>She alleged that some FCT stakeholders connive with political leaders to further dispossess the natives of their rights.<\/p>\n<p>She also recalled that FCT natives were tear-gassed during a peaceful protest while demanding what constitutionally belonged to them, insisting that such treatment reflected the lack of respect for their dignity and future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu &nbsp; As Nigeria marks 65 years of independence, natives of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), say they have no reason to celebrate, accusing successive governments of marginalization, oppression, and dehumanization. Hajiya Farida Suleiman Odangi, a pioneer executive of the Coalition of Abuja Indigenous Associations, made the remarks on Wednesday. She lamented that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76043","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76045,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76043\/revisions\/76045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}