Nigeria: Revisiting the Urhobo Stand On National Conference

21 March 2014
opinion

The UPU memorandum to the Presidential Advisory Committee on National Conference is profoundly thought provoking and illuminating.

At page two, paragraph three, it stated: "Some states with population size less than half that of the Urhobo have three senators each while the Urhobo have only one. We are cheated in terms of the number of local governments". This statement therefore translates to the issue of proportionate representation.

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