Bill seeking creation of Ibadan state, one other from ‘old Oyo’ passes second reading

The bill which seeks to create the New Oyo State with Oyo town as the Capital City from Oyo State scaled through second Reading on the floor of the House of Representatives, on Tuesday.

The private member bill was sponsored by Hon. Adeniyi Adeyemi and six others who observed the effect of Consequential change of the name of the remaining Part of Oyo State to Ibadan State with Ibadan City as Capital City and defined for Local Government Areas comprising the two States.

In his lead debate, Hon. Adeyemi who observed that the bill is not new to the parliament, recalled that the bill was successfully passed in the Second Republic by both chambers (National Assembly) awaiting the presidential asset before military interregnum in our Democratic life.

It’s noteworthy that present Oyo State deserves to be split into two being the largest state in terms of landmass in the South-West geopolitical zone with thirty-three Local Governments and it has a population of 5,580,894 people (2006 census).