APC chieftain, Aliyu Audu calls for creation of six more states, gives reasons

<p>A Chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC Aliyu Audu has called on President Bola Tinubu’s administration to consider the creation of six more states from all the geo-political zones.</p>, <p>Audu, a member of the Media Strategy Subcommittee of the APC Presidential Transition Council, made the call on Wednesday while featuring on a Channels Television programme.</p>, <p>The party chieftain explained that if more states are created, the growing rural-urban migration would be minimized.</p>, <p>Audu argued that some states like Lagos are overburdened because of the mass exodus of Nigerians to the city for greener pastures.</p>, <p>He said, “If we can take a bit of this pressure off Lagos by creating six other states in six geopolitical zones, that will reduce rural-urban migration, prevents people from leaving the North, the East and the West to Lagos.</p>, <p>“It balances up the states and to do this, you need more people, you need more hands, we need more processes.”</p>