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Bill for creation of Ibadan State passes second reading in House of Reps

✍️ Sharon Eboesomi, .Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus-Coauthors.Is-Layout-Flow, Class, Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus, Display Inline, .Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus-Avatar, Where Img, Height Auto Max-Width, Vertical-Align Bottom .Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus-Coauthors.Is-Layout-Flow .Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus-Avatar, Vertical-Align Middle .Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus-Avatar Is .Alignleft .Alignright 📅 October 09, 2025 03:05 PM ⏱️ 2 min read 🕐 Scraped: October 10, 2025

Summary: Its sponsor, Abass Adigun (PDP, Oyo), argued that Ibadan, being the largest city in West Africa and a historic capital of the defunct Western Region, deserves statehood for reasons of equity, development, and administrative efficiency.

The House of Representatives has passed for the second reading of a bill seeking to create a new state in Nigeria’s South-West geopolitical zone.

This followed the consideration of the bill to alter the Constitution to provide for the creation of Ibadan State with Ibadan as the proposed capital city.

If successful, the move would mark the first creation of a new state in Nigeria since the country’s return to democratic rule in 1999.

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