Senator Ned Nwoko, yielding to the call of Ika Nation, held a crucial ANIOMA stakeholders summit.
At the this Stakeholders Summit held on Saturday the 31st of August 2024, the Dein of Agbor was invited as a Special Guest Speaker.
While giving his speech, The Dein of Agbor thanked the Senator for this move and reminded him of the need to keep politics out of the Anioma State Movement, and reminded him of the importance of the state and how it is a dream for all ethnicities (Ika, Ndokwa, & Aniocha-Oshimili) within the ANIOMA hegemony.
He also advised the Senator to keep it off disintegrating Nigeria seeing that the move has mainly been led both online and physically by Ohaneze Ndigbo and members of separatist group, IPOB who seek to create their own country out of Nigeria.
This further remphasizes the stance of Ika People since Sen Ned Nwoko proposed the bill for Creation of the State;
Onu Ika, the top socio cultural and political organization representing the Ika Ethnic Nation- “ANIOMA state will only be considered if it is in the old Midwestern region/ South South Region, and not the South East.”
Ikoro Agbor, Agbor Youths group- “Agbor Kingdom has no shared history, governing commonality, or association with the Igbo, before or after British Colonialism & Agbor Kingdom remain United in the quest for Anioma State”
Owa Progressives, Owa Kingdom- “Wholeheartedly supported the creation of Anioma State as part of the South-South region to address misrepresentation of its people. This will also help boost economic activities within the region. However we reject the annexation of the ANIOMA region to the South East Region”