ABUJA — The Northern delegates to the ongoing National Conference have given reasons why they are opposed to the creation of an additional state for the South East.
Spokesman of the delegates, Mr Anthony Sani, who made this known, said “the issue of an additional state for South-East purely on the basis of equality ignores the fact that equality is not one and the same thing with equity.’’
Quoting Aristotle, Sani said: “Injustice is not only when equals are treated unequally but also when unequals are treated equally.”
In a statement yesterday, he further said: “States are created to take care of human beings. And when it comes to population and land mass, it is morally preposterous to regard South-East and North-West as equals. People forget the fact that former Eastern Nigeria is today nine states while former Western region is today eight states.
’’The North with more population than the South is just 19 states. People should not redefine the truth and justice. So if states are to be created, it should not be on the basis of equality alone but all other factors must be considered.”
Delegates at the on-going national conference
On derivation
On derivation, he said: “While not opposed to derivation principles in order to compensate for degradation of environment and reward for efforts, derivation should not make some parts of the country live on cutting edge while some others live on the knife edge of survival.
“We must take the concept of nationhood into account in our agitations for what we consider due and payable to us. This is because we cannot afford to live as if we are in different continents instead of in one country. Bridging the gab in incomes to reduce inequality is not just good politics but good economics as well”
On single tenure for president, govs
Sani further opposed single tenure for president and governors, saying that it would remove the motivation and incentives for working hard.
He said: “If all good and feckless leaders are corralled into the same group without any reward for performing ones, the only incentives left would be pillage of commonwealth by leaders. That is why most nations practise multiple tenure so that performing president and governors would be rewarded with re-election.
’’And if the clamour is to remove abuse of power of incumbency, it is to be noted that many countries device their own means on how to reduce the tendency to abuse power of incumbency.”
For example Chile allows multiple tenure that are not consecutive by preventing a president to conduct an election in which he is a candidate.And that was why President Michell of Chile could not contest as an incumbent despite her immense popularity,and came back to contest when she was not the president. She won.’’

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LOL!

I taya for dis ppl sef. U never develop the 5 states wey u get, u wan add d sixth one. E no make sense say u neva swallow wetin de ur mouth, u wan add anoda one. Infact, where d land dey wey dem go carry create state sef? No southeastern state is more 20km away frm the other. Give ebonyi, abia, anambra a befitting status of a state capital, then, we can add anoda one for u. Until then *in Lagbaja's voice* nothing for u!

jerseyboy:

This inconsistency can only come from the mind of a hypocritical parasite.

i repeat, 'injustice is not only when equals are treated unequally , but when unequal are treated equally'. We want to reduce the number of the state and u people are asking for more evn as we know that nothing good is going to come out of that state rather than waiting for monthly federal allocation. Why do u ppl always come up with something that will pull us back when we're trying to make progress? Frm biafra, aba riot, bakassi boys, okija shrine , cliford orji etc, these are what u give to us. How we wan take grow with all these? Sms!

Who expects northern parasites to voluntarily release the over abundance of southern wealth in their mouths
If 9 states were created out of the old eastern Nigeria, 8 out of the old western Nigeria, how many were created out of the sparsely populated northern Nigeria again?
You could change the criteria for state creation all you want, but there is no need to justify it with unattainable reasons.
With more states and local governments, thanks to your military junta, the north siphons off more than 80% of the federal allocations, they have more senators to protect their interest, and of course more busy body house of rep members like Lawal and Tambuwal, but they are poor students of history, and even politics of the long run type.

caseless: I taya for dis ppl sef. U never develop the 5 states wey u get, u wan add d sixth one. E no make sense say u neva swallow wetin de ur mouth, u wan add anoda one. Infact, where d land dey wey dem go carry create state sef? No southeastern state is more 20km away frm the other. Give ebonyi, abia, anambra a befitting status of a state capital, then, we can add anoda one for u. Until then *in Lagbaja's voice* nothing for u!

Ilekere:

Where are the biafraudians ? I trust them to keep mum now that their lords and masters have spoken. Tufiakwa !!!

Is the North ACTUALLY more populated than the South? Can any body remind us why Chief Festus Odimegwu, a former National Population Commission, was forced to resign? I had been opportuned to travel round 34 States in Nigeria and the question still is: Is the North more populated than the South as they claim?

When has the north being more populated than the south all this gworo eaters n abokis can lie....is it their cows that they count as humans or what

PenSniper: Where are the biafraudians ? I trust them to keep mum now that their lords and masters have spoken. Tufiakwa !!!

ode, injustice to one east is injustice to the entire south.

Op, the man is just saying "the east is great the way they are, if we add another state to them they might get even greater than us all(it scares us). So we have to try to keep reduce their growth. if we can't ,we can @least keep them in line"

If the argument is based on the need for development,then I sincerely do not tink we easterners need an additional state to develop.are the zones wit more states more developed than the east?
Creatin additional state means creating division,no significant development.
The new state will have new governor,commissioners,senior special advisers(including on women,children,kitchen,entertainment,media and wt not),then special advisers,special assistants,parm secretaries,civil service special duties,then the governors wife will come wit her pet project as a conduit-pipe to syphon money all in the name governance,who pays the bill?...tax payer moneyfrom the masses. smaller number of states is even easier to develop,we have one tribe in the East,(the East is arguably more homogenous than any other region)so y division?y cnt our governors come together to build regional integration projects,like railway lines,speed-train,urban mass transit,seaport,mechanised farming, airport?
Is Ebonyi. State better off atfer been caved out frm Abia and Enugu?don tink so.why dong we look beyond politics an see the economics viability of State creation?for those who have more state;the Moment oil money ceases to flow from Abuja,they will seek to merge by force.

And the back and forth continues...

Most of them are not residing in that region, so which additional state they want again.

caseless: I taya for dis ppl sef. U never develop the 5 states wey u get, u wan add d sixth one. E no make sense say u neva swallow wetin de ur mouth, u wan add anoda one. Infact, where d land dey wey dem go carry create state sef? No southeastern state is more 20km away frm the other. Give ebonyi, abia, anambra a befitting status of a state capital, then, we can add anoda one for u. Until then *in Lagbaja's voice* nothing for u!

And kebbi state was added to NW because they had finished developing the rest of the 6previous states?
And NE has 6 states because yobe, Adamawa, borno, go be, bauchi were all developed before they added another one to it?
Coming to SW, ogun, osun, Oyo, ondo were all developed before ekiti was added?

U are opposed to more states for S/E due to ur parasitic nature. More state for S/E will mean more local govts and that means more federal govt allocation/funds for the S/E. More funds for S/E will mean reduction of the unmerited funds that goes to the north.

We are wiser than you think we are.