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Recently, the country was enmeshed in uproars over the move of some federal agencies and departments back to Lagos by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led Federal Government with allusions in some quarters perceiving it as a scheme to limit economic growth in Abuja boost the economy of Lagos. In fact, it was portrayed as a plot to marginalize the North and its people by a president from the southern part of the country.
Admittedly, such an action may have targeted Lagos State and the Southwest geopolitical zone, but the bitter truth is that concentrating all the federal ministries, departments and agencies in the Federal Capital Territory was ill-conceived. Suffice that the existing federal infrastructure domiciled all over Lagos could justify the choice of Lagos.
Ideally, apart from the Presidential Villa that comprises the offices and residences of the President and Vice President, and then the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and the FCT Minister, all other ministries, departments and agencies of the government can prudently operate from any part of the federation and not mandatorily from Abuja. Otherwise, there would be avoidable pressure on the FCT.
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