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Benin Republic Wants To Be Nigeria’s 37th State
Benin Republic, Nigeria’s next door neighbour to the west is desirous of collapsing into Nigeria and becoming Nigeria’s 37th state, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama has said.
The offer according to the minister was made by the President of Benin Republic, Patrice Talon during a recent visit to President Muhammadu Buhari.
Onyeama, according to Daily Trust stated this shortly after a close door meeting with Beninoise Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Aurélien Agbenonci.
“The President of Benin said as far as they are concerned, they want (not just saying it like that) but in reality, Benin should be the 37th state of Nigeria,” he said.
“We should really be one. They charged us to come together at ministerial level, to work out a framework for a sustainable relationship.”
GreenWhiteGreen, GWG reports that Benin has a close economic and cultural relationship with Nigeria with a large swathe of the territory in the South occupied by the Yoruba who bear close affinity to the Yoruba in Nigeria.
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