In a statement signed by the IYC’s spokesman, Eric Omare, a lawyer said that Ijaws were the first to make a request for the creation of two additional states to wit: Toru-Ebe State from the present Delta, Edo and Ondo States and Oil Rivers State from the present Rivers and Akwa Ibom States
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