Senator Ali Ndume, the Chief Whip of the Senate, has warned President Bola Tinubu over the relocation of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) departments and the entire Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) headquarters to Lagos.
The Senator gave the warning in an interview with Channels TV.
Ndume said that it would be more sensible to consider Nasarawa, Kaduna, Kogi and other neighboring states of Abuja for their proximity, rather than the distant city of Lagos.
He said, “Lagos boys” within Tinubu’s cabinet are pushing for this decision.
“Some of them think that they know better than everybody. But they don’t know anything.
“When you don’t know Nigeria, you only know Lagos, then you start doing things as if Nigeria is Lagos. Lagos is in Nigeria. That’s a wrong decision.
“We will not accept it. Besides, you know, they are not doing any favour to Mr. President, because this will have political consequences. Yes. I’m telling you this.
“And these guys who are just sitting down there, trying to hang on to Mr. President will not be there to amend the political mistakes or even to correct it because they don’t know anybody.
“They only know their offices. And they only know that they have brains.”
