Dokar neman samun jihar Ogoja ta tsallake karatu na biyu a Majalisar Wakilai ta Tarayyar Nijeriya. Dokar, wacce aka gabatar a ƙarƙashin sunan “A Bill for an Act to Alter the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) to Create a new State in the South South region known as Ogoja State and for Related Matters (HB.1555)”, anayin wahala ta Hon. Godwin Offiono da wasu mambobin majalisa uku.
Hon. Offiono, wakilin mazabar tarayya ta Ogoja/Yala a jihar Cross River, ya bayyana cewa burin dokar ita ce kawo da adalci ga yawan jahohi a yankin South South, domin yanzu yankin ya samu jahohi bakwai kama yadda wasu yankuna ke da su a ƙasar.
Ba da daɗewa bayan an gabatar da dokar, an kawo ta a gaban majalisar don karatu na biyu, inda ta samu goyon baya daga mambobin majalisa. Shugaban majalisar, Tajudeen Abbas, ya miƙa dokar zuwa kwamitin tsarin mulki na majalisar don sake duba.
Dokar samun jihar Ogoja ta shiga cikin jerin doka da dama da ake neman samun jahohi sababu a ƙasar. Tun da yake, an samu dokoki da dama a majalisa da ke neman samun jahohi a yankuna daban-daban na ƙasar, kamar Etiti State a yankin South-East da sauran su.
An bayyana cewa, samun jihar sababu a ƙasar Nijeriya ya fi wahala saboda tsarin da aka bayar a kundin tsarin mulkin 1999. Dokar ta tsarin mulki ta bayyana cewa, dole ne a samu goyon baya daga akalla biyu bisa uku na mambobin majalisa daga yankin da ake neman jihar, sannan kuma a samu goyon baya daga akalla biyu bisa uku na mambobin majalisa na jihar, da kuma goyon baya daga akalla biyu bisa uku na mambobin majalisa na ƙasa baki daya.
