{"id":173744,"date":"2025-08-12T12:53:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nigeria-should-create-new-state-in-south-east"},"modified":"2025-08-12T13:53:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:53:33","slug":"nigeria-should-create-new-state-in-south-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-should-create-new-state-in-south-east","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Should Create New State in South-East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Review of the Constitution for the Southeast Zone, and Senator representing Ebonyi North Central Senatorial District, Onyekachi Nwaebonyi, says if Nigeria is to create any new state, it must come from the South-East.<\/p>\n<p>Nwebonyi made this declaration while answering questions in an interview on ARISE News on Tuesday, adding that such would address what he called a longstanding \u2018zonal imbalance\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker, who is Senate Deputy Chief Whip, highlighted the constitutional process for state creation, stressing that the hurdles are high but not insurmountable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSection 8, sub 1, A to D of the constitution lays down the procedures to be followed when we want to create more states in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has to originate through a request backed by two-thirds majority of representatives from the area, including at the Senate, House of Representatives, State House of Assembly, and local government councils. That is the 61 bills my colleague is talking about,\u201d Nwaebonyi explained.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Review of the Constitution for the Southeast Zone, and Senator representing Ebonyi North Central Senatorial District, Onyekachi Nwaebonyi, says if Nigeria is to create any new state, it must come from the South-East. Nwebonyi made this declaration while answering questions in an interview on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":173743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254,18367,1029],"class_list":["post-173744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria","tag-nwaebonyi","tag-south-east"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria Should Create New State in South-East - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Review of the Constitution for the Southeast Zone, and Senator representing ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-should-create-new-state-in-south-east\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigeria Should Create New State in South-East\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Review of the Constitution for the Southeast Zone, and Senator representing ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-should-create-new-state-in-south-east\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-12T11:53:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-12T12:53:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754990751.407278.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1050\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"709\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-should-create-new-state-in-south-east#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-should-create-new-state-in-south-east\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Nigeria Should Create New State in South-East\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-12T11:53:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-12T12:53:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-should-create-new-state-in-south-east\"},\"wordCount\":181,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-should-create-new-state-in-south-east#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754990751.407278.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"Nwaebonyi\",\"South East\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-should-create-new-state-in-south-east#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-should-create-new-state-in-south-east\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-should-create-new-state-in-south-east\",\"name\":\"Nigeria Should Create New State in South-East - 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