Ohaozara Reject New State For S’East

The People of Ohaozara
Local Government Area in Ebonyi state have opted to be excluded from the proposed additional state in the south east,  Etiti, which is being planned to balance   the number of states in other zones.
Spokesman of the  community leaders and Chairman of Ohaozara Local Government Council, Ogbuefi Enekwachi Akpa who led other leaders from the area to address Journalists in Abuja  at the weekend, said the people would not want to be dragged  into any other entity where they may become strangers.
He explained that while the  Ohaozara people appreciate the recommendation of the national conference for the creation of additional state for the South East to be at par with most of the zones, they are against their purported inclusion in the proposed Ekiti state, also christened  “Equity State”.
According to him, their rejection of the new state was based on the people’s cultural and language heritage which the people do not want to lose.