Paramount ruler of Remo Kingdom, Oba Michael Adeniyi Sonariwo, Akarigbo of Remo has called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the Federal Government to create Awolowo state out of Ijebu and Remo divisions of Ogun State.
Creating Awolowo state the monarch said would put an end to the controversies that have been trailing the creation of Ijebu state since the agitation started decades ago.
He believes creating Awolowo state would mean immortalising the late premier of the Western Region, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the way Washington D.C. was created in memory of the late founding President of the United States of America, George Washington.
The rationale behind this, he said was that Ijebu and Remo have been agitating for the creation of a state out of the old Ijebu province.
He argued further that the place remained the only province in Nigeria today, which has not become a state out of the provinces created during the colonial era.
-Emmanuel Ikechukwu
