Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, says the FCT administration will celebrate FCT at 50 during the third anniversary of President Bola Tinubu.
Wike disclosed this in Abuja on Wednesday, during a meeting with members of staff of the FCT Administration as part of activities to celebrate the territory’s golden jubilee.
He said that a committee would soon be inaugurated to plan the FCT golden jubilee and Tinubu’s third anniversary
The minister, who thanked God that FCT clocked 50 years during his time as minister, said that a compendium for the golden jubilee would be unveiled during the celebration in three months time.
He said that the transformation in the FCT and other achievements recorded in the last two and a half years wouldn’t have been possible if not for the support of Tinubu.
He argued that infrastructural development in the FCT was slow until Tinubu removed the administration from the Treasury Single Account (TSA), which enabled access to funding to execute life-impacting projects across the territory.
“Every time we say, for years, no infrastructure. Why would there be infrastructure when there’s something restraining you, but removing FCT from TSA allows the administration to access funding from commercial banks.
“Today, everybody is saying there’s massive infrastructural development. If that was not made possible, we would still be hanging around; we would still be saying nothing is going on.
“So, we must appreciate somebody who has laid the foundation for us to get to where we are,” he said.
He pointed out that beyond infrastructural transformation, workers of the FCT Administration had equally recorded a milestone under Tinubu, particularly in career progression to Permanent Secretaries or Head of FCT Civil Service.
“Ministers have come and gone; presidents have come and gone but no one made this possible except Tinubu.
“Today, every worker is happy that there’s hope that they can be a permanent secretary. There’s hope they can be a head of service.
“This is not easy to achieve but somebody made it possible,” he said.
