Enugu – The Enugu State House of
Assembly on Thursday
unanimously adopted a
resolution in support of the
creation of Adada State out of
the present Enugu State. Presenting the motion during
plenary, the sponsor of the
motion and Leader of the
Assembly, Mr Sunday Ude-Okoye,
said the history of the struggle
for the creation of Adada state began 31 years ago. He said it was the oldest demand
in the South East zone of the
country that was yet to be
actualised. In his six-point motion prayers
which was co-sponsored by 21
others, Ude-Okoye urged the
relevant stakeholders, members
of the National Assembly, state
legislators, elected chairmen and councillors from the seven local
government areas that
constitute Enugu North
Senatorial zone to initiate
actions for the actualisation of
the state. “That this honorable House,
today, first day of November,
2012 do hereby pledge total
support and commitment to the
creation of Adada state out of
the present Enugu State in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. “Two, that this honorable House
appreciates the genuine efforts
of the Governor of Enugu State,
His Excellency, Barrister Sullivan
Iheanacho Chime towards the
realisation of Adada dream through setting up the state
committee on the creation of
Adada state. “Three, that this honourable
House urges the governor of
Enugu State to continue to give
all the necessary logistic support
to the state committee set up
for the actualisation of Adada state. “This Honorable House hereby
resolves that any other request
for the creation of a new state
outside Adada state from Enugu,
is not in tune with the wishes of
the good people of Enugu State.” The lawmaker said formal
request for the creation of the
new state was forwarded to the
National Assembly on March 2,
1983 through the late Senator
Isaiah Ani who represented Nsukka in the senate between
1979 and 1983. He said the second attempt was
on Jan. 2, 1996 to the Mbanefo
Committee on the creation of
states and local governments
while the other was on Feb. 19,
2006 by the Chief promoter, Igwe Charles Abangwu to the national
assembly. The leader of the assembly listed
other efforts toward the
creation of the state to include
the inauguration of a 24 man
committee headed by (Rtd), Maj.-
Gen. Godwin Ugwuoke, by Gov. Sullivan Chime on Sept. 17, 2007. He said the South East caucus of
the National Assembly had
inaugurated a 10-man committee
of senators and members of the
House of Representatives under
Sen. Ifeanyi Ararume and when the demand for the creation of
four states, namely: Aba, Adada,
Urashi and Njaba were
presented, Adada got the
highest vote. Ude-Okoye said that since there
was a high demand for the
creation of Adada state, all well-
meaning people from the South
East should support it. He said the land area for the
new state was still intact and its
creation would make for justice,
equity and fairness in the
political equation of state
creation, among other things, in the six geo-political zones of the
country. According to him, the name
Adada was derived from the
Adada River in Uzo-Uwani Local
Government Area. He said Nsukka would serve as
the state capital.
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Good for you guyz.

We in Anambra does not want any part of it (Anambra) to be carved out. We are okay the way we are constituted.