By Stanley Onyekwere
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello has charged elected officials of the six FCT Area Councils to focus on good governance, aimed at satisfying the yearnings and aspirations of electorate.
Bello gave this charge yesterday in Abuja, while performing the swear-in of new and re-elected six Chairmen and their deputies in compliance with a court order.
The inauguration is coming after about three weeks of impasse following the FCT high court judgement of May 18, 2022, suspending the swearing-in of the elected chairmen and the councillors.
According to the Minister, “The time of electioneering campaign is over. Now it is time to face and focus on good governance to ensure that electorate enjoy more dividends of democracy in the territory.
“ You should accord priority attention to primary health care services. I also advice you to give attention to sanitation primary education and other basic social amenities”.
Similarly, the Mandate Secretary for FCT Area Councils Services Secretariat, Abubakar Dantsoho, also enjoined the chairmen to prioritize their area of concentration.
“ You were elected to perform and you are going to be judge by your performance. You can see about three of them were re-elected if they have not perform well I’m sure they will not be elected by the electorate.
“ So, it is a very big challenge, it is not a time for jamboree. It is time for governance and I urge them to do the best otherwise we will be out for them.
“At the FCT Area Council Services Secretariat we are very in charge of the area councils and we will be going after them, inspecting their programmes and whoever didn’t perform we will ensure the law will take it cause.”
Earlier, the chairmen, while taking their Oat of Office pledged to defend the constitution of Nigeria and abide by the rules and regulations guiding the running of FCT without any fear or favour.
They equally vowed to govern in fairness , devoid of discrimination to all residents, irrespective of political, ethnic or religious affiliations, even as they promised to discharge their duties in to the best of their abilities in honesty and integrity.
