Ttipsy:
I swr
And surprisingly they are against them leaving for their own country Biafra

javascript1901:
I grab....also SE region seems small compared to other regions for the creation of more state....

georgeakins:


Go and form your biafra and stop agitating for state creation

georgeakins:


Yorubas travel more than Ibos, just that there are places they avoid.

1. Yoruba and all Nigerians avoid ibo land like plague.
2.Yoruba don't travel to Asia where your blodas go mainly to prosecute their narcotic business.

georgeakins:


Bayelsa alone is richer than all 5 Ibo states.

How do you intend to finance this new state when South East contributes little or nothing to GDP?

Revealpanda:


Stop dragging South South to your nonsense.

South East never mocks south South

We know our enemy and it's not even the Northerners

flokii:
The Igbo Reps in NASS are not pushing for referendum for biafra but are busy pushing for another dot state that will be the size of one estate in Niger State.
No offence meant but I feel SE shouldn't have more than 3 States considering the size. Niger State should start pushing for creation of 5 more States to properly capture their interest and that of NC in Nigeria.
We'll still get to 47 States, not 37. E sure me say Northerners go create additional 2 States each for NE, NW and NC.

Pinicop:


https://gazettengr.com/bill-to-create-etiti-state-in-south-east-scales-first-reading/

javascript1901:
you are dumb

VaginaAcademic:
Driver I'm going to Etiti state ...wakes up from sleep and sees a signpost welcome to Ekiti state

YouAreNobody:


1 or 2 ikwerre men don't speak for the entire ikwerre tribe.
Numerous other ikwerre men have also said they're Igbos. Even Rotimi Amaechi said he's an Igbo man.
Asari Dokubo just said last week that he's an Igbo man (but we don't want him, you guys can have him).
You guys try to demarcate Igbo land based on States and Regions (which are even imaginary boundaries) and not based on language.

Ohaji Egbema in Imo State and Ohaji in Rivers State, for example, are the same community divided into two during State creation but you tell me one is in the SS while the other is in the East. Make this make sense.

Just in case you don't know, the incoming Ohanaeze ndi Igbo chairman is an ikwerre mannn

DIVINEEVIDENCE:


Imo, Abịa and Anambra's GDPs are higher than that of Bayelsa.

You must be a Batist.
Spawns of Lai who dish off statistics manufactured from their imaginations with drunken alacrity.

javascript1901:
they shouldn't have use similar name with Ekiti state. Yeah, I'm not okay with that more especially both Ekiti and Etiti are exactly the same word and meaning in Igbo language but that is their cup of tea with the national and state assembly. I would have suggested they adopt the a river that runs in the region or find an English name like central state, eastern state or whatever since we already have English state names like Plateau, Delta, Rivers and Cross River

And south east region is small for more state,This is false. At over 29,000m², the Southeast zone is larger than countries like Albania, Equatorial Guinea, Burundi, Haiti, Rwanda, Republic of North Macedonia, Djibouti, Belize, El Salvador, Israel, Slovenia, Fiji, Kuwait, Eswatini, Bahamas, Montenegro, Qatar, Jamaica, Gambia, Lebanon, Cyprus, Puerto Rico, Brunei, Trinidad and Tobago, Cabo Verde, Samoa, Luxembourg, Réunion, Mauritius, Comoros, Guadeloupe, Faeroe Islands, Martinique, Hong Kong, Sao Tome and Principe, Kiribati, Bahrain

except they are creating from the igbo region outside south east then add to the south east region. this is not a problem nor a factor. Other people like Ikwere, Anioma can agitate for their own states without needing to be added in Southeast. For example, Yoruba or Hausa exists beyond one zone and even exists outside the boundaries of the country

That means other region will also create. Not a problem, my own proposal for equity is 7 or 8 states for each of the six zones. There are currently many agitations for new states in each region.

georgeakins:


Those states contribute nothing to GDP.
Abia cannot even pay the minimum wage of 18,000

I don't know why people from your region live in self deception

ChimaAdeoye:


Whether they call it "ORLU" or "ETITI", it is the exact LGAs that they are talking about.
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We prefer viable states like Anioma, which are made up of homogenous people in a defined area, and with a historic request for statehood. Orlu politicians need to apologize for the scam they intended to carry out against Ihiala and Nnewi people. Shame on you!

ChimaAdeoye:



Yes, we ask for a 6th viable state in the Southeast for equity. [[[Orlu state is merely a land grab scheme by Orlu politicians to use other people to achieve their dubious intentions. Moreover, Orlu people are carving out land from other people without even consulting them,]]] [b] THIS IS WRONG. Orlu district existing before the creation of Anambara or Imo has always being agitating for a state under different names like Orlu state or Urasi state. It is not a new scheme or Orlu people agenda.

and without offering them the state capital or the name of the state to placate them.
THIS IS THE ONLY THING I'VE BEEN HAMMERING ON. NNEWI OR more especially IHIALA MAKES MORE SENSE AS THE CAPITAL. Changing from names like Urasi state back to Orlu state and the same Orlu as capital sounds counterproductive because all of them get big man and big ego even more than Orlu.
Nnewi or Ihiala should be the capital of Orlu or ETITI State if you want it to succeed.

You can't just take their land and offer them nothing in return! SAY WHAT YOU KNOW, nobody is taking anybody land. Orlu and Ihiala share a lot in common -dialect, business zeal and customs. An outsider would not differentiate them. Many churches there are in orlu diocese.
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