1. The leadership of Ebira Youth Congress (EYC), frowns at a theatrically-motivated bill for an act to alter the fundamentals of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended 1999, to provide for the creation of Okura State with Anyigba as its proposed capital with the inclusion of Ajaokuta Local Government.
2. To put the record straight, Hon. Abdullahi Ibrahim Halims who is the prime sponsor of the bill and eight others had indulged in Igala-centric agenda which could be regarded as a legislative meandering and harlotry; a calculated miasm on the collective psyche of Ajaokutans, and by extension, the good people of Kogi Central Senatorial District.
3. At the extraordinary congress session convened yesterday by the leadership of this socio-cultral organisation, the congressmen condemned the inclusion as an aberration and asserted that boundaries or borders are accident of history, and whoever attempts to change them is a recipe for war or conflict.
4. According to them, such inclusion is an attempt to denigrates and maligns us as a people, and it is satirically demeaning; a finger print strategy and manipulation which is disparaging to our historicism and predisposition. We shall form a valid resistance against it and thus, project our intellectual strength and capacity to totally reject that satanic and erroneous inclusion.
5. We argued that a state exists as a geographical entity where laws and orders are maintained in a defined territory. So, Kogi state can not be notably exempted from this intellectual analysis of how a state should be structured geographically; amidst constitutional powers supporting its entire structures.
6. To accentuate further, we vehemently condemned the outright inclusion of Ajaokuta Local Government in the erroneously designed map of Okura State, and thus described the move as a willful pervasion of justice which is fraught with excessive dramatic display of expansionist traits by the sponsor of the bill, and his cohorts.
7. We totally condemned those lawmakers who are involved in this satanically-machinated attempt to alienate and circumvent the rights of the aborigines; the original inhabitants of Ajaokuta Local Goverment. This is because there exists a natural boundary which has clearly demarcated Ajaokuta Local Government in Kogi Central, and Ofu Local Government in Kogi East respectively.
8. Even, that practical reality suffices to prove that the inclusion of our dear Local Government in the proposed creation of Okura State is not only erroneous, but promotion of ultra-Igala-centric agenda which can spark off boundary dispute of potential and magnitude proportions that we have never witnessed in many decades; as the inclusion is naturally watered down by the practical specificities as glaringly evident in the demarcations supported by the advent of River Niger.
9. However, we support the fundamentals of the nation's democratic regime and its significant components particularly, the legislative arm which is principally saddled with the responsibility of law making for the Nigerian people. It is in such a context that we would contribute our refined opinions, and lend our distinct viewpoints within the specrum of decisions making and discussions of state creation as a civil society organisation. But we will never support the said Okura State because of the sponsor's neglegence to recognise the historicity of our dear Local Government and its people.
10. In addition, we equally berates this satanically inclined move which is intended to swindle the collective psyche of Ajaokutans and the people of Kogi Central as a meandering in its entirety and legislative harlotry in all sense of evaluations.
11. We are currently mobilising other civil society organisations across Kogi Central to champion this cause with a view to form a valid resistance movement that could halt the erroneous and purported inclusion of Ajaokuta Local Government in Okura map which is an affront to our historical and cultural sensitivity.
17th February, 2025.
Signed:
Comrade Saka Bachido Ahmed , EYC President General.
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