Aba State Movement Commends Ohanaeze
The Aba Movement has commended the Ohanaeze State Committee on Creation of State for the thorough job it did with the submission of its report to the South East Governors Forum. The leader of the movement, Elder Emmanue Adaelu, gave the commendation in a statement made available in Abuja on Thursday. Adaelu also said that […]
The Aba Movement has commended the Ohanaeze State Committee on Creation of State for the thorough job it did with the submission of its report to the South East Governors Forum.
The leader of the movement, Elder Emmanue Adaelu, gave the commendation in a statement made available in Abuja on Thursday.
Adaelu also said that Chief Theo Nkire, the first Attorney-General of Abia, had presented the report to the Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu Committee on ongoing Public Hearing on the review of the 1999 Constitution in Owerri.
“The Committee (Ohanaeze) did a great job. It went through the tonnes of documents, the 11 proposed areas for state creation submitted to it.
“Among the documents required were evidences that the proposed areas had complied with Constitutional requirements for state creation in sections 8 and 9 of the 1999 Constitution,’’ Adaelu said.
He said that the movement was delighted by final recommendations of the committee to the South East Governors’ Forum to enable the transmission of the report to the National Assembly.
He that the transmission would be done through Executive Bill, as promised by President Muhammadu Buhari, when Ohanaeze delegation visited him in November 2017.
Adaelu recalled that the movement in a letter on Oct. 18, 2020, to Gov. Dave Umahi, Chairman of the South East Governors Forum, considered the merit for the creation of Aba and Adada states respectively.
He said that the movement also resolved and recommended the creation of Aba State, with 12 members supporting, and five abstaining.
“The Committee also recommended that any other State Creation exercise in the South East should give Adada State priority.’’
Adaelu said the Aba State Movement aligned with the Ohanaeze committee’s recommendation.
He said that this was so because it was an independent body before which all groups agitating for a State in the South East fully participated in by making presentations to it.
“We made a presentation to the Senate Committee on constitutional review on the case for the creation of Aba State, the same case the Ohanaeze Committee confirmed in its report to the South East Governors Forum.’’
