Chairman of the Senate Committee on Nationwide Identification and Inhabitants, Victor Umeh, has described the Nationwide Meeting’s approval for the creation of an additional state within the South-East as an amazing improvement that accords with justice, fairness and equity.
Senator Umeh, who mentioned this on Tuesday in an interview on Come up Tv monitored by DAILY POST, referred to as the event a daring step towards therapeutic and unity.
He added that the choice marks a big step towards addressing many years of political and structural marginalisation within the area.
“This agitation for one additional state within the South-East is just not a brand new factor. Way back to 2014, after we have been on the Nationwide Convention, the entire 492 delegates that attended agreed unanimously that the South-East deserved one additional state earlier than calls for from different components of Nigeria could be thought of.
“What the Senate and the Home of Representatives did at this retreat final weekend is one other affirmation of the justice of the matter,” he mentioned.
In accordance with him, out of the 55 requests for new states acquired nationwide, the Joint Committee unanimously agreed that the South-East must be given one first, describing the choice as a protracted-overdue recognition of the area’s quick-altering in state creation.
Umeh harassed that when the South-East will get its additional state, future state creations could be thought of on an equal foundation throughout all six zones.
