Delegates At The Confab Wants More States

News emanating from the National Conference is saying that, delegates wants the creation of more states in the federation.

However, it clamour was said to have pitted delegates against one another on Wednesday. Some claimed that it was wrong for the Committee on Political Restructuring and Forms of Government to have recommended for the creation of one state for the South-East alone without anything for the other zones.

The committee report read:

“There shall be created an additional state for the South-East zone and that all other requests for state creation should be considered on merit.”

The committee approved guidelines for the creation of states by saying that any new state sought to be created must be viable.

In determining what is viable, the committee says such state must be economically viable or potentially economically viable and it should have human, natural and material resources and enough land mass

The new state, it said, should have cultural/ historical antecedents, with strong cultural affinity amongst the population of the new state and that such a new state should have a minimum population of one million people.

There were 34 requests for state creation before the committee while a request was made to change the name of Adamawa State to Gongola State.

A delegate, who was a former Minister of Industry, Chief Nike Akande, canvassed for the creation of another state from the present Oyo State.

As if Nigeria wasn't divided enough, these people now wants to divide us even further. Congrats to them.