Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State created 29 new Local Government Areas in the state courtesy of his signing into law a bill to that effect.
Consequently, the Acting Deputy Clerk of the Bauchi State House of Assembly, Musa Yerima, has submitted the proposal to the Committee on Constitutional Review seeking the approval of the National Assembly to ratify the ongoing constitution amendment.
The Deputy Clerk, in his letter addressed to the Chairman Senate Committee on Constitutional Review, Senator Barau Jibrin, reads, “the Bauchi State House of Assembly has passed into Law, a bill to provide for the creation of 29 new additional local government areas in Bauchi State, 2025.
“The additional Local Government Areas are inchoate until such time as the National Assembly shall pass an Act to make consequential provisions with respect to the names of the said additional Local Government Areas as provided for under Section 8(5) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“The said Law is hereby forwarded to the Chairman Joint Committee on Constitution Review Committee, National Assembly for further necessary action, please.”
Yerima said the Law has been passed in cognizance with Sub-Section 3 of Section 100 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended).
If created, the state with about 10 million estimated population, would now have 49 LGAs against the 20 it currently has.
