The Asepo Omo Igbomina, a socio cultural organization of the Igbominas from Kwara and Osun states has held its 12th Conference in Ilorin, Kwara State, where they resolved to press more for a separate state of their own.

The conference which was chaired by the Olupo of Ajase Ipo, Oba Sikiru Atanda Sanni, Wonuola II, as the head of Igbominas in Kwara State, was said to be part of the series of efforts by the people to demand for unified identity in the name of a state.

They posited that their agitation had started since the colonial time up to the successive military regimes in the country when they used to meet in Ila Orangun, now in Osun State well ahead of the creation of states in the country.

Coordinator of the group, Mr. Oyin Zubair in his welcome address said the igbominas have their origin in Ile Ife like any Yoruba community which dated back to many centuries ago and wondered why they should by any accident be made to belong to a northern geo-political arrangement in the country. Zubair said their agitation was renewed in 2004/2005 under President Olusegun Obasanjo when they demanded for Oke Oodua State after holding due consultations with eminent group and persons in the South Western states.

According to him, the likes of Prince Bola Ajibola was of great assistance and sympathy their cause at the time pointing out that their agitations would never cease until a re-arrangement is done with the boundaries along the ethnic lines to make them belong to their historical and cultural place. In a lecture presented by a University of Ilorin lecturer, Dr. Ebenezer Ejalonibu , the idea of agitation for the creation of states to suit the historical and cultural belonging of a people was never a sin or any harmful venture but a demand necessitated by pronounced marginalization.