Creation Of Nigeria’s Mid Western Region.
The Benin community, led by Oba Akenzua II of Benin, was the catalyst for the agitation for the Mid-Western Region’s creation in 1948. The group demanded the establishment of a Mid-Western or Benin-Delta Region. Honorable M. S. Sowole, a member of the Action Group in the Western Region House of Assembly at the time, presented…
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