{"id":2014,"date":"2012-09-06T16:43:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T16:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2012-09-06T16:44:33","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T16:44:33","slug":"2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=2014","title":{"rendered":"IMO HOUSE BACKS CREATION OF MORE STATES IN THE SOUTH-EAST."},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Imo State House of Assembly, Tuesday, threw it support for the creation of an additional state in the South-East.<br \/>\nThe House said that the zone is over due for more states,<\/p>\n<p>Moving the motion on the floor of the House, the Chief sponsor, Hon.\u00a0Acho\u00a0Ihim and 13 others, said that the South-East geo political zone deserve to have more states. In his presentation, member representing Owerri West State Constituency, Hon. Innocent\u00a0Ekeh, said\u00a0Igbos\u00a0are totally marginalized at the Federal level because it does not have equal states with other zones.<br \/>\nHe said \u201cpolitics is all about number and our allocation too Imo state is peanuts compared to what other states obtain\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Hon.GregOkemili\u00a0(Oru\u00a0East LGA) backed the\u00a0clamour\u00a0for the creation of additional states in the South-East, saying the region deserves more than one state. Hon. Simeon\u00a0Iwunze\u00a0(Isiala\u00a0Mbano) regretted that while\u00a0Igbos\u00a0are \u201cplaying\u201d politics with state creation, other geo-political zones such as the South-South have gotten 50% of oil derivation while the South West\u00a0and North East zones are demanding for concession.<br \/>\nIn his remarks, the Speaker, Imo House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Benjamin\u00a0Uwajumuogu\u00a0said the request by the South-East for more states is overdue, recalling in 2005, when former President\u00a0Olusegun\u00a0Obasanjo\u00a0backed the region for more states.<br \/>\nWhen the matter was put for voting, all members present voted in support of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Imo State House of Assembly, Tuesday, threw it support for the creation of an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-xtra"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=8\" rel=\"category\">News Extra<\/a>","tag_info":"News Extra","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}