Paraman:
Creating more local government area is far better than creating new states

EmeeNaka:
Agbakoba is not wrong altogether, but he failed to understand that we can't put our eggs in one basket. We have to request for more states for sake of balancing. However, if Nigeria decides to restructure, then there we are.

okoloto:
South east needs more states. It's not injustice only because it is not happening to you. Equal state as per region balances resource and political sharing. Creating more states will not stop regionalism. After all we know who and who is afraid of regional government.
All regions is blessed in Nigeria and I don't know why some are afraid of regional government. They prefer to share free lunch in abuja from other regions without contributing anything. Selfishness and tribalism is what is holding us down. Nigeria will be great but we need to do the right things. Competition breeds achievements. Forget the I'm not competing with anyone mantra.

MIKOLOWISKA:
which governors will agree to scrap their states

phemmie06:
Not viable truly yet their governors are milking them dry same way PBAT is milking us or sucking bloood of Nigerians

Ceenelly:
Anioma state is viable and can be self sufficient but it should remain in south south not south east.

Tflex01:


Aguiyi Ironsi killed our regional government not Gowon

Try and say the truth for once, Igbos killed our regional Government in Nigeria because of desperation to rule over others.

KingOfAllIgbos:


The 5%ers .... Dot-in-circlers.

The region is the least habitable. Should just be converted to a Pit Latrine for other states to dump their faeces. 💩 💩 💩

The ONLY ones left there are the poor & hungry.

Ask Obi and Obiano why they fled immediately to Lagos & USA respectively .

ColonelMichael:


Is Andy okeke not more useful than the fake pig prophet mohammed?

Ceenelly:
Anioma state is viable and can be self sufficient but it should remain in south south not south east.

Goodvibes007:

100% true.

sulaak:


The S East played dirty politics when the Igbo-led NCNC decided to join forces with the NPC, the NPP coalition with the NPN in 1979, and the Peter Obi coalition with the Atiku PDP. The Igbo are just angry that they were not the political decision-makers today. H

An Igbo man, Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, promulgated the now-infamous "Decree No. 34," which abrogated the country's federal structure in exchange for a unitary one.

The Igbo should first point their fingers at themselves before blaming others. Regional government would benefit the SW more than any other region.

Obiedun:


https://punchng.com/agbakoba-seeks-return-to-regional-govt-faults-agitation-for-new-states/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2uUtIvfcFwLLxLF_ph-X_cgPgEG9us2T7A3NUXa5IhbVjkMUSorfN8YRM_aem_x7DybodMmLH71QehaRiIBw

babajero:
We are talking about technological advancement and development and you are here writing about election, that is the main reason over uneducated populations is killing Nigeria because you people just born like guinea pigs without any training or whatsoever just so you can win election.

If really regional government will benefit the sw more why are Yorubas so afraid of it?.

Afenifere chieftain to submit regional govt proposal to Tinubu
https://punchng.com/afenifere-chieftain-to-submit-regional-govt-proposal-to-tinubu/

Tinubu gets bill proposing return to regional govt Friday
Meanwhile, Fapohunda who also represents the Coalition of Indigenous Ethnic Nationalities told The PUNCH that the organisation is proposing the division of the country into eight geo-political regions with approximate interim boundaries.
https://punchng.com/tinubu-gets-bill-proposing-return-to-regional-govt-friday/

johnjose68:


I also learnt the i.gbo owns dubai and London...do you know what that means

Paraman:
Creating more local government area is far better than creating new states

ColonelMichael:


When you will have Sense, people will take you serious, my state IMO state has the highest natural gas, I don't understand what you are sayong, if you ain't a bloody northerner with barren land and a worthless religion, you will be all these meaningless Yoruba muslims who are confused and don't know their right from left.

Let me ask your why did imbeciles like your father wedge war against us when we said we want to leave this cursed contraception?

Obiedun:
where is the money to finance the take off of the new states?

Kobojunkie:
When, in the history of Nigeria, was the "structure" ever not doomed? You lot are notorious for blaming the structure instead of blaming the Nigerian people who refuse to "stone" the criminals who steal and destroy their future. The structure has nothing to do with the problem which is instead the people; the Nigerian people are zombies!

Democracy is a government for the people by the people. The people of Nigeria are, by design of the system, meant to be seated right in the driver's seat of their government. (Elected officials are meant to be backseaters in a democracy since they work for the people after all.) However, what we have is a situation where the people have instead taken to sitting way in the back seat while expecting the situation to magically run in their favor. They have become wailers pretending they are victims when they are instead at the foundation of the problem.

commoditiesnig:

They won't answer that!

REALretep:
■ The bolded above is a definition used to deceive the gullible (sorry i mean no offence). Even the West promulgating democracy don't practice it as it is done here because they know the limitations of such a system. It can be hijacked by one person or a group of powerful persons which we are already witnessing.
■ We must change our governance and political structure to something that works for us. We can't keep practicing the current doomed structure. Nigerians are great people just like other humans in other parts of the world. The whites whom you worship (sorry I mean no offence) have done far worse things than we have. But they came to their senses to create a workable governance and political structure for themselves.
■ I pray a time comes when we too will come to our senses to replicate same.

Kobojunkie:
1. So, the Kenyan children putting to practice that same definition today are gullible? Wow... you Nigerians are a special breed.

2. In the last 63 years alone, Nigerians have doomed the Regional, Military, and now Democratic structures. Yes, the people blamed the system each time and never fought to keep any before now. So tell us, what special structure will cause you and others who think as you do to want to wake the fk up and actually engage your own government?

3. Exactly! You do nothing to change things but pray that some magical occurrence will come and make it all good for you. It is beyond me how many of you think.

REALretep:
■ Stop ranting like a child. Your knowledge of Nigeria under the regional system of government is obviously limited. The regional system wasn't doomed as practiced then. Despite the corruption and looting of the public treasury then, the system was productive with the regions competing in productivity.

After a brief honeymoon period, Nigeria’s long-standing regional stresses, caused by ethnic competitiveness, educational inequality, and economic imbalance, again came to the fore in the controversial census of 1962–63. In an attempt to stave off ethnic conflict, the Mid-West region was created in August 1963 by dividing the Western region.

Despite this division, the country still was segmented into three large geographic regions, each of which was essentially controlled by an ethnic group: the west by the Yoruba, the east by the Igbo, and the north by the Hausa-Fulani. Conflicts were endemic, as regional leaders protected their privileges; the south complained of northern domination, and the north feared that the southern elite was bent on capturing power. In the west the government had fallen apart in 1962, and a boycott of the federal election of December 1964 brought the country to the brink of breakdown. The point of no return was reached in January 1966, when, after the collapse of order in the west following the fraudulent election of October 1965, a group of army officers attempted to overthrow the federal government, and Prime Minister Balewa and two of the regional premiers were murdered. A military administration was set up under Maj. Gen. Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, but his plan to abolish the regions and impose a unitary government met with anti-Igbo riots in the north. The military intervention worsened the political situation, as the army itself split along ethnic lines, its officers clashed over power, and the instigators and leaders of the January coup were accused of favouring Igbo domination. In July 1966 northern officers staged a countercoup, Aguiyi-Ironsi was assassinated, and Lieut. Col. (later Gen.) Yakubu Gowon came to power. The crisis was compounded by intercommunal clashes in the north and threats of secession in the south.

DevilsEqual:
If this will be accompanied with restricting massive influx of immigrants from one region to another, then it's fine

No be say when job dey open for only regional citizens, immigrants go con dey shout tribalism o

triple996:
And some idiots are calling creation of more states . Igbos are scared of restructuring, they will only support it if they are merged together with the Niger delta . So that they can marginalize them and claim their oil

Kobojunkie:
It is not up to the governors but the people whether states should be scrapped or not.

MIKOLOWISKA:
the way Nigeria is set up it is the governors

Kobojunkie:
Not even close!

MIKOLOWISKA:
■ Ok o.You know they're the ones that control budgets. And money talks in politics. Your theory is vastly different from practical