Dr. Alex Ekwueme Believes Another State Should Be Created In The South East

His words; “Referendum or taking the report to the national assembly, that is a decision should have been taken before the conference itself started.

“During out time, it was a military government and there was no National Assembly, and the document setting us up specified that, whatever decision we arrived at will be accepted without amendment by the military government.

“If it goes to the National Assembly, it would be done the same way they do with Bills. They will take each section one by one, clause by clause, phrase by phrase and they will start catching and patching.

“But bearing in mind that the final report was approved unanimously, I think the National Assembly should go ahead and approve and not taking it sentence by sentence.”

On state creation, Ekwueme noted that to ensure balance between north and south, which was the purpose of creating six geopolitical zones, another state should be created in south-east.

He said, “Well, you know my attitude. In the 1995 Conference Report, I was of the view that each of the six geopolitical zones should become a federating unit because in fairness to our founding fathers, what we inherited from them and from the British government was not a multiplicity of states.

“What we inherited and what we agreed (in the 1960 conference) was a country made up of three regions. It was agreed by all our political leaders and given to us at independence.

“My argument has always been that there were two things wrong with the structure we had at independence and thereafter

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