The Nation Newspaper No law forbids non-muslims becoming FCT minister, Rivers elders tell Gumi
that it was wrong for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to appoint a Christian as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory .
Rejecting claims that the FCT is in the Northern region and so, the only ones who qualify to occupy the ministerial position of the FCT must be a Northerner, Okocha argued that Abuja is not a designated core northern state to be inhabited and governed only by the northerners and that the territory is not dominated by only Muslims.
Okocha said he has not been found guilty of any infraction whatsoever, but rather has worked in tandem with the mission assigned to him within the ambit of the constitution of Nigeria and remains unshakable.Okocha said: “The Muslim cleric took to the pulpit in Hausa language to say the FCT is in the Northern Region and so, the only ones who qualify to occupy the Ministerial Position of the FCT must be a Northerner.
On an alleged plan to demolish the national mosque, Okocha stated: “The Purveyors of this villainous venom have the latent and patent intentions to show off the Hon. Minister as one against the Muslim faith and hater of the North.
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