State creation ’ll end agitations

More of state creation will ease most of youth agitation and reduce domination of certain tribes over others of the same zone. Th is is true for obvious reasons mainly like the former four regions where we had the north made up of the Hausa, Nupe and Fulani under one zone, while the East was made up of the Igbo, Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Efi k. In Efi k (Calabar), there are so many sub-groups within the northern enclave of Cross River State called the Atam. In Ogoja alone, there are more than six diff erent languages which are basically not of the same variant in government, yet to a manageable extent because they are within the same state. All those who asked for zoning are because they have one language, no communication gap like the rest of us in Cross River, Akwa Ibom, etc. Efi ong Spatts, Yaba, Lagos state

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