An elder statesman and second Republic Minister for Education, Professor Ihechukwu Madubuike, has stated that Orlu wasn’t among the proposed states for the South East geopolitical zone of the country.
Vanguard News reported that the Igbo Leader stated this in an exclusive interview on Wednesday.
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Professor Ihechukwu Madubuike, said; "Definitely there is a crying need for an additional state for the South East. We have already dealt with that in both 2005 Obasanjo confab and Jonathan’s confab in 2014. For them to do anything meaningful, they should go to confab report. They should find out what has already been agreed.”
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The Igbo leader added during the interview; "Orlu State wasn’t among the ones that we proposed. This one is a bastardisation of what we proposed. We said we should have Equity/Etiti State."