Date: 2020-12-16

THE Chairman of the North-Central People's Forum, Senator Jeremiah Useni, has appealed to the Federal Government to establish the North-Central Development Commission to cater to the needs of the people in the six states and the Federal Capital Territory of the North-Central zone.

Speaking in Ilorin at the inauguration of the Kwara State executive committee of the forum on Tuesday, Useni explained that the forum was formed to unite the people of North-Central geopolitical zone and agitate for what belonged to them from the government.

Useni said, "This forum is not formed as a breakaway from the Arewa Consultative Forum, which is the umbrella body of the 19 states in the northern part of the country. We have three geopolitical zones in the North; North-West, North-East and North-Central.

"We form this forum to unite the people and fight for the establishment of North-Central Development Commission like we have in the North-East so as to hasten the development in the region.

'The North-Central is also asking for the establishment of North-Central Development Commission to bring about development in the zone just like we have the North-East Development Commission. This is not to break the north, but to ensure more development."