Constitutional review: Why Nigeria should be divided into 12 regions

• Barrister Oladotun Hassan has called connected the National Assembly to disagreement Nigeria into 12 regions successful the ongoing law amendment
• The ineligible icon made the telephone successful an exclusive with Legit.ng, adding that immoderate states should besides beryllium renamed
• Hassan noted that Nigeria needed much than 12 regions considering the information that determination were implicit 400 taste groups successful the state

The National Assembly has been urged to disagreement Nigeria into 12 regions to bespeak the existent individuality of each people successful Nigeria. Oladotun Hassan, a ineligible practitioner, made the telephone successful an exclusive interrogation with Legit.ng.

Hassan besides called for the reappraisal of immoderate states' names, adding that they should bespeak the names of the radical successful the state. His connection reads:

"Let our authorities arsenic beryllium reviewed. Lagos is not Lagos, you tin picture Lagos arsenic Eko. Even we successful Lagos we called Lagos arsenic Ipinle Eko, due to the fact that Lagos is simply a Portuguese word, not adjacent our ancestral word. Ekiti, Ondo, Osun are each accepted names. Names that are not portion of america should beryllium changed. Port Harcourt is an English word. "We request to look astatine the sanction that reflects our identity. For me, it is precocious clip we reappraisal the constitution of caller states. The portion should beryllium spread, we should beryllium reasoning astir 12 regions, not conscionable six. We are beyond 12 regions, but with each our implicit 400 taste nationalities, we tin redesign into the visions that champion suit the clans that are surviving successful immoderate peculiar zones into state, section governments and regions. "We request to person the Yoruba region, which indispensable spell from the Jebba country of Niger state, of Kwara state, immoderate portion of Kogi state, we person the Ayetoro successful Kogi, these are each Yoruba land. We person immoderate areas wrong the Dahomey that are been arsenic encroached by different country, owed to a deficiency of due delineation aft the advent of the assemblage masters. "So, by virtuousness of our largeness. People request to place themselves properly. We don't accidental Nigeria should alteration its name, but astatine least, fto america bash thing that would champion picture us. It doesn't alteration our individuality arsenic Nigeria, it would adjacent marque america much patriotic citizens, who are not needfully born."

Why each portion should person tribal names

He further echoed the presumption that each portion should beryllium named aft the large people that occupied it, specified arsenic the Southeast being named the Igbo portion and vice versa. He said:

:An Igbo antheral volition beryllium arrogant to telephone himself an Igbo antheral and not a southeast man, a Yoruba antheral volition not spell into the nationalist domain and beryllium calling himself I americium a southwestern man, no, helium volition arsenic conscionable accidental I americium Omoluabi from Yorubaland, and that champion describes us. Even a Hausa antheral volition not accidental I americium from the northeast. Have you seen a Hausa antheral calling himself I americium from North Central, northwest? They volition ever conscionable privation to accidental I americium a Zamfara, I americium from Kaduna. That's what they judge in. "This delineation of Southeast and Southwest is much of throwing america into unnecessary war. What Senator Ali Ndume was saying is conscionable a deceitful shelling of Crocodile tears weeping sentiment against the Yoruba radical that each appointments person been riddled by the Yoruba people, no, appointments are not riddled by the Yoruba people. "Everybody has a involvement successful what is called the Federal government. Some seats are adjacent much important. Do you cognize the fig of northerners who are imperishable secretaries successful Federal ministries? Do you cognize the fig of heads of national agencies and parastatals who are bluish people?"

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Source: Legit.ng