All you need to do is to lobby the National Assembly to increase your 13 per cent derivation. Yesterday's event concluded the series of presentation, which started with the South-East on April 30 in Enugu. In Benin City, the Edo State capital, Second Republic Senator, Chief Francis Spanner Okpozo, described the zonal debate as a coup against Nigerians especially, the South-South people in particular. It is an exercise in futility which will yield no dividend because the opportunity to put the people's views across is denied. It is an inquiry, not a constitutional review, because it takes two to agree and disagree.
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It also falls on the same proposal for the creation of more states. Consequently, he continued, the government intends by this section not to alter any existing law, which the people consider oppressive and obnoxious. This is anti-true federalism. He explained that it is through the Land Use Decree that the people of the South-South had been denied what rightly belongs to them. And this enactment was made purposely by the military head of state in 1979, and who is now the civilian president because of the rich oil resources in this region.