The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has explained that the revocation of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) land title in Abuja’s Central Area was due to the party’s failure to pay N7.6 million in ground rent from 2006 to 2025.
FCTA Director of Land, Mr. Chijioke Nwankwoeze, made this known on Wednesday while addressing journalists after the FCT Executive Committee meeting, chaired by the Minister, Mr. Nyesom Wike.
Nwankwoeze also dismissed PDP’s claim that two of its properties were revoked—the one in Wuse Zone 5, which houses its national headquarters, and the one in the Central Area.
“The land in Wuse Zone 5, which currently occupies its national headquarters, does not belong to PDP,” he clarified. “It belongs to one Mr. Samaila Ofi, and the revocation notice had been served on him at his Kaduna address, which is the address on our record. We did not serve any such notice to the PDP. The only one we served on them was the one in the Central Area.”
He further explained that notices of revocation are issued to titleholders, not tenants or occupiers.
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“You don’t serve revocation notice on a tenant or an occupier; you serve on the titleholder,” he stated.
According to him, Mr. Samaila Ofi had purchased the Wuse Zone 5 property from Wadata and had his papers registered through an assignment process. However, the property had accumulated a 28-year ground rent debt of N2.85 million.
The FCTA director noted that PDP’s revocation was not an isolated case, as a total of 4,794 land titles had been revoked over unpaid ground rents under Minister Nyesom Wike’s directive.
Earlier on Monday, Lere Olayinka, the Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to the FCT Minister, announced the revocation at a press briefing in Abuja, stating that 8,375 property owners collectively owed N6.97 billion in ground rents as of the end of 2024.