ACN Plans Regional Development Commission for S’West, Edo

This Day

8 May 2011

ACN Plans Regional Development Commission for S’West, Edo

A regional commission to accelerate development and economic integration in the south-west and Edo State in the south-south is in the works.

The commission to be known as South-west Regional Development Commission (SWERDCO) is being promoted by the Action Congress of Nigeria, which has control over the area covering the old Western Region, presently comprising eight states in the south-west and south-south.

Activities of SWERDCO, ACN sources revealed, will cover Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Ekiti, Osun and Ondo States. Although Ondo is under the Labour Party, it will be included under the commission because the ruling party in the state has an ideological affinity with the ACN.