Reps transfer to separate Oyo State into two

The House of Representatives has handed, for second studying, a invoice searching for to separate Oyo State into two distinct states.

The constitutional modification invoice, sponsored by Akeem Adeyemi (APC, Oyo) and 6 others, goals to create a brand new Oyo State, with Oyo city as its capital.

Moreover, the invoice proposes the consequential renaming of the remaining a part of Oyo State as Ibadan State, with Ibadan Metropolis as capital.

The invoice was not debated by the lawmakers, as Speaker Abbas Tajudeen introduced that the invoice was easy laws that didn’t require debate.

Mr Tajudeen subsequently referred the invoice to the Committee on Constitutional Evaluation for additional legislative motion.

Oyo State was created on 3 February 1976, following the division of the previous Western State in the course of the navy regime of Normal Murtala Mohammed

There have been a number of makes an attempt to create completely different states out of the current Oyo State. Previously, such payments to create Oke-Ogun and Ibadan states had did not scale by way of.