Group demands Ibadan State

Agitation for the creation of Ibadan State has taken a new dimension  as a group ‘Oyo State Stakeholders on State Creation,’ called on the national conference to recommend in its final report the split of the present Oyo State to two States.

The press conference addressed by Chief Adebayo Oyero

, President of the Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes (CCII) on behalf of the group, urged the national conference to sensitize the National Assembly on the need to amend Section 8(1) (a and b) of the 1999 Constitution with a view to removing the impediments to state creation.  This, the group said, would create a conducive atmosphere for meeting the demand of the people on state creation, where such demand is merited.
 Chief Oyero said the national conference, by taking action in line with its suggestion, “would be living to its historical responsibility of political restructuring of the country in a manner that will ensure equity and set the tone for good governance.”
The group said Oyo State, as presently constituted, is about the largest state in the whole of Southern Nigeria and that by the year 2006, the state had a population of 5,580,894  and was 5th among the 36 States of the Federation.