‘Kwankwaso’s comment on extra state in S’East laughable’

Posted by admin Headlines, Kano, South-East, State News Monday, October 8th, 2012

The World Igbo Youth Council on Sunday berated the Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, over his comment that the South-East zone does not deserve an extra state.

The WIYC said Kwankwaso’s comment was against the principles of the 2005 National Confab where Nigerians agreed to the creation of an additional state for the South-East.

The group’s Board of Trustees Chairman and a chieftain of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Mr. Chuks Ibegbu, said Kwankwaso should know that there had never been any credible census in Nigeria since 1963, and “so his claim that Kano State has a population of nine million based on the false census is a well-of-the-wisp.”

Ibegbu referred to Kwankwaso’s claim to a large land mass in Kano and the North and described it as “laughable,” saying, “what has land mass got to do with population?”

He said, “He also laughably asserted that Kano State needs three more states. Well, we don’t blame him. If not for the unjust and wicked activities of past military juntas which his types in that part of the country superintended, there would not have been the present structural imbalance skewed against the Igbo in general and the South-East in particular.”

Meanwhile, governors of the South-East have said the creation of an additional state for the zone is not negotiable.

They said this on Sunday in Enugu after a meeting of the South-East Governors’ Forum, which had in attendance senators, traditional rulers, religious leaders and stakeholders from the zone.

Addressing journalists, the Chairman of the forum and Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, said, “The most important of all that we discussed today is that the creation of an additional state for the South-East is not negotiable.”

Also, former President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Dozie Ikedife said, “Nobody can kick against the creation of another state for the South-East. The Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, who is kicking against it is not God and of course, he can’t do anything.”

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