Efforts to have Ijebu State created was intensified on Thursday with a joint stakeholders’ meeting scheduled for the Aafin Awujale in Ijebu Ode.
Billed to be at the meeting are two paramount rulers in Ogun East Senatorial District, Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona, and the Akarigbo of Remoland, Oba Babatunde Ajayi.
According to the Onigegewura Akile Ijebu, Tunde Oladunjoye, in a statement he signed, the stakeholders’ forum on the proposed Ijebu State will also attended by accredited representatives of the people of Old Ijebu Province, presently known as Ogun East Senatorial District in the present Ogun State.
To be present are other traditional rulers, members of the National and State Assemblies from Ogun East, local government council chairmen from Ogun East, opinion leaders, businessmen and women, market leaders and members of religious and community based organisations.
Recall that the bill for the creation of Ijebu State was recently presented at the Senate.
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The bill, which seeks to establish Ijebu as an independent state, was sponsored by Senator Gbenga Daniel, representing Ogun State.
Titled the “Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Sixth 1 Alteration) Bill, 2024 (Creation of ljebu State),” the proposed legislation aims to carve out Ijebu from the current Ogun State.
The bill was introduced by Senate Majority Leader, Michael Bamidele, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the “fourth order of the day” during the plenary.
After reading the title of the bill, Senate President Godswill Akpabio moved the proposal forward, passing it for its first reading and setting the stage for further legislative processes.
The bill will undergo a series of discussions and evaluations before it can proceed to the next stages of approval.
