STATE CREATION DATE AND THE CREATOR.

GENERAL,YAKUBU GOWON CREATED 12 STATES IN NIGERIA ON 27TH MAY 1967.
GEN.MURTALA MOHAMMED INCREASED THE NUMBER OF STATES FROM 12 TO19 ON THE 3RD OF FEB,1976.
23RD OF SEPT, 1987 GEN IBRAHIM BADAMOSI BABAGINDA ADDED 2 MORE STATES MAKING THE NUMBER OF STATES TO GET TO 21.
27TH AUGUST 1991 BABAGINDA ADDED 9 MORE TO MAKE IT 30 IN ALL.
ON THE 1ST OF OCT.1996 GENERAL SANI ABACHA CREATED 6 STATES.MAKING IT 36 STATES AND THE FCT.ABUJA.

Gowon declares the division of Nigeria in 12 states, which includes splitting the Eastern Region into three parts

On the eve of the Nigeria-Biafra war in 1967, Gowon and the Federal Military Government split Nigeria into 12 distinct states. For some, this decision was reflective of the desire of Nigerians to have more autonomy in the governance of their own regional affairs. However, this move also served to break apart the “ethnic hegemony” of the Igbo people by confining the majority of the Igbo to the new East Central State. Gowon explains in his speech creating the twelve distinct states that “the twelve states will be six in the present Northern Region, three in the present Eastern region, the Mid-West will remain as it is, the Colony Province of the Western Region and Lagos will form a new Lagos State and the Western Region will otherwise remain as it is.”

1967 map showing the 12 states created by the FMG.

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