As mixed reactions continue to trail the proposed creation of 31 new states, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo and the Arewa Youths Consultative Forum, AYCF, have expressed divergent views.
Kpakpando recalls that the House of Representatives Constitution Review Committee had on Thursday put forward a proposal for more states to be created in Nigeria.
The proposal, which was read during plenary by Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu, in the absence of Speaker Tajudeen Abbas has continued to gain acceptance and rejection across the country.
The states being considered include Okun, Okura and Confluence from Kogi; Benue Ala and Apa from Benue; FCT State; Amana from Adamawa; Katagum from Bauchi; Savannah from Borno; Muri from Taraba; New Kaduna and Gujarat from Kaduna State; Tiga and Ari from Kano; Kainji from Kebbi; Etiti and Orashi as the sixth states in the South-East; Adada from Enugu; and Orlu and Aba.
Others are Ogoja from Cross River, Warri from Delta, Ori and Obolo from Rivers, Torumbe from Ondo, Ibadan from Oyo, Lagoon from Lagos, and Ogun, Ijebu from Ogun, and Oke Ogun/Ijesha from Oyo/Ogun/Osun States.
While some stakeholders like former federal lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Joe Igbokwe amongst others spontaneously rubbished the proposal, others welcomed the development, citing marginalization of some ethnic groups across the 36 states.
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