{"id":6610,"date":"2025-05-27T12:55:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T12:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=6610"},"modified":"2025-05-27T12:56:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T12:56:01","slug":"fcta-seals-off-pdp-secretariat-firs-others-over-ground-rent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2025\/05\/27\/fcta-seals-off-pdp-secretariat-firs-others-over-ground-rent\/","title":{"rendered":"FCTA Seals Off PDP Secretariat, FIRS, Others Over Ground Rent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<section class=\"site-sections article-page\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<article id=\"article post-927923\" class=\"section col-12 col-lg-8 section__default section__post post post__detail post__default\">\n<div class=\"section-inner\">\n<div class=\"post-content detail-grid grid-alignright grid-allow-pullout\">\n<p><strong>The Federal Capital Territory (FCTA) Officials have sealed off Wadata Plaza, the building housing the National Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abuja, over unpaid ground and tenancy rent.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"advert advert__leaderboard d-block\">\n<div class=\"ad__placeholder\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1672569656851-0\" data-google-query-id=\"CMqA9tvXw40DFfJVpAQdS0gCtA\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/7032479\/Article_Page_in_Article_1_300x250_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lere Olayinka, the Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, said the plaza owes N7,603,504.31 as 28 years\u2019 ground rent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Wadata Plaza being used as PDP National Secretariat, N7,603,504.31 is being owed as 28 years\u2019 Ground Rent,\u201d he wrote on his Facebook page on Monday afternoon after the sealing off.<\/p>\n<div class=\"advert advert__leaderboard d-block\">\n<div class=\"ad__placeholder\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1672587799169-0\" data-google-query-id=\"CJuP9tvXw40DFfJVpAQdS0gCtA\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The building was part of the structures sealed off by the FCT administration on Monday. Others included complexes housing a commercial bank, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), and the Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) at the Wuse Zone 5 in the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the FIRS, FCTA officials had clashed. Security guards and some staff of the agency tried to prevent them from gaining entrance into the property. But they were later allowed into the building before sealing it off.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FCTA Officials, FIRS Staff Face Off Over Sealing Up Of Property\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6jo9SXITFsU\" width=\"750\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s sealing off came a few months after the FCT administration lamented that over N6 billion had been lost as revenue due to non-compliance by some property owners in the payment of their ground rents for over 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the FCTA, in a statement by Lere and the administration\u2019s Director Department of Development Control, Mukhtar Galadima, ordered the taking of \u201cpossession of the 4,794 properties revoked over non-payment of Ground Rent, for between 10 and 43 years\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOwnership of the revoked 4,794 properties in the Central Area, Garki I and II, Wuse I and II, Asokoro, Maitama and Guzape districts, had already reverted to the FCTA, and as from Monday, next week, the government will begin to exercise its rights of ownership on the affected landed properties,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs usual, this will be done without consideration as to ownership of the affected landed properties. 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