Senate President Godswill Akpabio officially reacted to reports making the rounds on social media that it has approved the creation of 12 new states across the country.
There were reports on the Internet about approval of the creation of Ijebu, Ibadan, Tiga, Toru-Ibe 8 Other New States last week, which stated an official gazette detailing the new states and their administrative frameworks. …CONTINUE READING
Speaking on the floor of the senate on Tuesday, July 22, under Order 42 of the Senate Standing Orders, Senator Abdul Ningi (Bauchi Central ) dismissed the report as fake
Akpabio corroborated Ningi, stating emphatically that the senate has not taken any decision on state creation.
His words: “I hope that the way Africans use social media will not break society; that is my only hope. You see, even for appointments to be made, they will go and create fake letterhead paper and write that the person has rejected the appointment.” Akpabio added: “No single state, proposed or otherwise, has been created.
Even if that were to be the case, it would involve all the houses of assemblies in the country. And we must get their two-third concurrence before anything can come back to us. And the two chambers, the house of representatives and senate must also be involved.”
Speaking further, Akpabio said although there are proposals for state creation, “not one has reached a stage where we can even say we have finished zonal or national deliberation and then transmitted to state houses of assembly, and then brought back to the national assembly for deliberations.”
The former Akwa Ibom state governor noted that the processes of making amendments to the Nigerian constitution are “very stringent.”
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The alleged newly approved states Are:
SOUTH WEST
Ijebu State – Carved out of Ogun State
Ibadan State – Carved out of Oyo State
SOUTH EAST
Anim State – From parts of Anambra and Imo States
Adada State – From Enugu State
SOUTH SOUTH
Toru-Ibe State – Drawn from sections of Ondo, Edo, and Delta States
Obolo State – From Akwa Ibom State
NORTH EAST
Savanna State – From Borno State
Amana State – From Adamawa State
NORTH WEST
Tiga State – From Kano State
Gurara State – From Southern Kaduna
NORTH CENTRAL
Okura State – From Kogi State
Apa State – From Benue State
Why is new state creation ring bell in a country like this. Are we not to embrace development in the country?
Akpaibio suppose to be in jail…..Creation of state is it the perioty for development or creation employment for the youth and the graduate….and the case of natasha has just been dormant …what about our famus nigeria resource like califonium that only per kilo can change some part of the nation …pls Akpaibio cont to mislead us ..its well….bounch of cycopants
Create new state we demand. It help in the development of the country.