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Ibru calls for creation of
Urhobo State

• Tuesday, Apr 29, 2008

Olorogun Felix Ibru, President-General, Urhobo
Progressive Union (UPU), has called for the creation of
Urhobo state.

He made the call Saturday in Abuja at the annual  Urhobo Day celebration.

He said that the Urhobo’s would use the forth coming national constitution review to pursue their agenda.

“We shall use the opportunity of the constitution review to canvass for the creation of an Urhobo state.

“Despite all the programmed efforts to under count the densely populated areas of Urhobo land during the last census exercise, an Urhobo state would still be demographically larger”, Ibru noted.

He said that the National Executive of the UPU had initiated moves to reconcile Urhobo sons and daughters with “long standing differences” with the union.

Speaking earlier, Mrs Grace Ekpiwhre, the Minister of Science and Technology, urged youths in the Niger Delta region to pursue education.

She said that an educated person has better advantage to earn a living than an illiterate.

“Urhobo youths should return to the way of old, though they were poor but used to work hard to earn a living” she said.

The minister also gave her support to the on going probes by the National Assembly, saying it would serve as a lesson for serving government functionaries.