Lobby For Adada State Intensifies

Campaign for the creation of the sixth state in the South East preferably Adada State out of the present Enugu State has intensified with the call from participants at a lecture on State Creation in Nigeria.

The lecture titled “State Creation: The Imperative of Adada in the Southeast,” the Sixth Annual Lecture of Ezike Diamond Club of Nigeria, a Lagos-based peer group, professional club, comprised of professionals from Enugu State

Organised in collaboration with Movement for the Creation of Adada State and held at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja.

In his paper, guest lecturer, Dr. Simon Ortuanya of the Faculty of Law, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus (UNEC) blamed the National Assembly for failing to utilize the powers conferred on them by the Creation of State and Boundary Adjustments Procedure Act of 1982 to work expeditiously for the creation of states.

The section empowers the legislators to approach the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct a referendum where all other necessary criteria have been met as in the case of Adada.

The law regulating the creation of state and boundary adjustment is governed by the 1999 constitution, as well as the Creation of State and Boundary Adjustments Procedure of 1982. As regards the Act, the short title provides that it is in ‘Act to regulate the procedure for the creation of new states and boundary adjustments and for matters connected therewith,” he said.