Ohanaeze demands more states for South East
The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has reiterated its call for restructuring of the country and the creation of additional states in the South-east.
The group’s President-General, Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, who made the call during the Ohanaeze Ndigbo retreat on Wednesday in Enugu, lamented that the South East has lost trillions as a result of the disparity in state and local government creation, which was done by military fiat.
Iwuanyanwu said that Ohanaeze was not happy with the 1999 Constitution as amended.
According to him, if Nigeria is restructured, power would be devolved from federal to state with a reasonable autonomy to develop at their own pace without any hindrance from the Federal Government.
It will enable us to build our own seaports, railways, and other infrastructure to develop the zone,” he said.
On the imbalance in state creation, the Igbo leader threatened to take legal action against the Federal Government if it failed to give the region an additional state equivalent to other zones in the country, saying, “We are assembling Igbo lawyers to pursue it.”
He added that they would allow the state to be created anywhere in Igboland.
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