Nigeria: ACF - Why We Oppose Creation of New States

2 February 2013

The northern socio-cultural organisation, the Arewa Consultative Forum, yesterday kicked against agitation for the creation of new states saying that it will further increase the cost of governance.

In a communique issued at the end of its National Working Committee meeting in Kaduna, the ACF maintained that if there was any compelling need to create new states, "issues of landmass and population must be considered".

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