Senate Urged To Reject Report On State Creation

[Shola Sholaz]

PORT HARCOURT — THE Senate has been urged to reject the report of  Senator  Ike Ekweremadu led Senate Committee on the Review of the  1999 Constitution as it relates to state creation.
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Former Executive Director, Finance and Administration, Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Pastor Power Aginighan, in a statement, yesterday, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State,  said the Senate Committee erred when it failed to conduct signature verification of people in areas craving for new states.
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Calling on the National Assembly to set up joint National Assembly Committee on Creation of New States and Boundary Adjustment with mandate to conduct signature verification exercise in all the areas requesting for new states before submitting an actionable report,  Aginighan blamed the Senate Committee for the failure of the various areas seeking a new state to comply with the provision of Section 8 of the 1999 Constitution as amemded.

[Folami David]

State creation is not even what we should be thinking about in Nigeria right about now. There are more pressing issues.