The FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, has urged the Igbo people resident in the Federal Capital Territory to continue to support the government of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Minister made this call when a delegation of Igbo community in the Federal Capital Territory paid him a visit in his office on Wednesday.
Malam Bello emphasized that the continued support from all Nigerians irrespective of ethnic, political or religious inclinations was necessary to enable the President take Nigeria to greater heights.
He also urged them to extend the same support to all his appointees in the Federal Capital Territory to enable them deliver quality services to the residents as encapsulated in the Change Agenda of the Federal Government.
The Minister reiterated that he was working assiduously to make the Abuja light rail project operational by December 2017, adding that all the rail corridors would be developed to boost trade and commercial activities in the Territory.
Malam Bello remarked that the history of Abuja cannot be complete without the mention of the contributions of the Igbo traders.
He assured that his administration would continue to run an open door policy and all-inclusive government with all the strata of the society carried along to give every sector of the country a sense of belonging.
The Minister thus, called for peaceful co-existence amongst all ethnic groups resident in the Federal Capital Territory, stressing, “we should maintain the tempo of the peace we are enjoying in Abuja”.
Bello used the occasion to admonish the residents of the Federal Capital Territory to always report any suspicious movement to the law enforcement agents, in order to nip in the bud any security breach.
Speaking earlier, leader of the delegation and the Eze Ndigbo of Abuja, Eze Ibe Nwosu promised to maintain high degree of peace wherever they found themselves in the Territory and would continue to contribute to the economic development of Abuja.
Eze Nwosu asked the FCT Administration to carve out new layouts to develop new markets, in order to decongest the existing ones.
He appealed to the Minister to include the Igbo people resident in Abuja in Board and other political appointments to give them a sense of belonging.
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