The Apex socio-cultural organization for the Igbo people, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to correct the historical state creation imbalance in Nigeria by establishing two new states in the Southern region.
The Deputy President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, who made the demand through a press statement issued yesterday in Abakaliki with a title “A Call for Equity: Proposed 31 States Must Acknowledge Southern Needs” said there was the need to make up the states in the south to 19 to bring it to parity with states in the north.
In a statement titled “A Call for Equity: Proposed 31 States Must Acknowledge Southern Needs,” Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, the Deputy President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, expressed opposition to the House of Representatives’ recent proposal for the creation of thirty-one new states.
Isiguzoro described the proposal as “an exercise in futility” and a display of immaturity, lacking credibility and failing to meet the necessary constitutional requirements for state creation.
He also praised the House’s Deputy Speaker, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu, for rejecting the flawed proposal, which Isiguzoro stated would only “compromise the integrity of our legislative institutions.
