Paramount ruler of Remo Kingdom, Oba Michael Adeniyi Sonariwo, Akarigbo
of Remo has called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the Federal Government to
create Awolowo state out of Ijebu and Remo divisions of Ogun State.
The monarch told Daily
Sun at the weekend that creating Awolowo state would put an end to the
controversies that have been trailing the creation of Ijebu state since the
agitation started decades ago.
Akarigbo said creating
Awolowo state would mean immortalising the late premier of the Western Region,
Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the way Washington D.C. was created in memory of the
late founding President of the United States of America, George Washington.
The rationale behind
this, he said was that Ijebu and Remo have been agitating for the creation of a
state out of the old Ijebu province.
He argued further that
the place remained the only province in Nigeria today, which has not become a
state out of the provinces created during the colonial era.
The royal father,
however, said the serious controversies that had been hindering the creation of
the state was identity crisis because Ijebu state wanted Ijebu created and the
capital located in Ijebu Ode.
Remo, on the other hand,
insisted that if the state must be named Ijebu state the headquarters must be
in Remo so that the identity of the two people would be preserved.
To avoid all these controversies,
Oba Sonariwo added that if the state capital should be in Ijebu Ode, the state
should be named Ijebu Remo state or Awolowo state, but Awolowo state would be a
great honour for the first premier of Western Region, who did a lot not only
for the Yoruba race but the entire nation.
-Sun News
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