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No new State in Delta, please
SIR: Everybody, state, nation or country is phenomenally individuated and seraphically made special by its peculiar idiosyncrasies. A kind of cherubic microcosm in a macrocosm and a special species with a unique identity. That is what Delta state (The Big Heart) is in the comity of states in Nigeria.
Nigeria is a nation formed as a result of the agglomeration of different heterogeneous groups of peoples and states. It is indeed a rainbow coalition. There are states, but some states are more stately than the others. Right from the Willinks Commission's Mandate 1957/1958 on the rights of the minorities, the creation of the Mid-Western Region, Mid-West state and Bendel state, our Delta state was lurking at the back waiting to be born.
Its parturition came to reality on August 27, 1991 and ever since then we have not looked back. We remain the best all-round state, notwithstanding the vicissitudes precipitated by the sons of perdition and horrendous corruption perpetrated by the workers of political and tribal iniquities. Deltans are blessed with Davidic Graces and Solomonic sagacity. Delta has Clay, Glass-sand, gypsum, Granite, Iron Ore, Kaolin, Lignite, and Marble etc. We are one of the largest Oil/Gas producers in Nigeria and by African quantity configuration the 7th in Africa and the 26th in the World not as a Nigerian state but as a Delta Nation.
Our tourism potentials are indescribably great in Warri, Sapele, Asaba, Ughelli, Obiaruku, Orerokpe, Koko, Ugbangue, Okobia etc. We are the investors' paradise and distinction in the light of fiscal facilities, low crime rate and land availability etc. We have fertile land, luxurious and prolific growth of rubber, palm trees, cocoa, timber and aquatic abundance etc.
Deltans believe in the principles of "Arbeit Macht Frei" (work makes you free). This is our greatest weapon. We want to let every Nigerian know that whether they wish us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to ensure the survival, development, unity and the pre-eminent comeliness of Delta state.
The call for the creation of any state out of the present Delta state such a quintessence of greatness is therefore ungodly, wicked, sadistic and unpatriotic. We can call for movement of capitals and structures not a dismemberment of such an awesomely wondrous structure and indeed such a great people. We are indubitably and honestly the Big Heart. But we must do more to make it greater by displaying sincerity in political leadership. Uduaghan must show the way. Delta State - Truly the Big Heart.
Bobson Gbinije,
Warri, Delta State.

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I disagree with Mr Gbonije here. I think a state should be created from the existing Delta state. Since 1951, the people of Delta North have been clamouring for a separate state of their own, and if a state should be carved out from the South South zone of Nigeria. Delta North should get it and it should be called Anioma state.

Anioma state indeed. - Bollocks.

Anioma state, yes. It is overdue.

im very proud see my state potentials being discorverd