Members of the Bauchi State Caucus of the House of Representatives on Thursday rose from an emergency meeting with the resolve to push for the creation of Katagum State.

The caucus decision to resubmit their application for the new state-run is coming against the backdrop of the position by the Deputy Speaker, Benjamin Kalu that none of the 31 states’ applications submitted to the House Committee on Constitution Review stand the chance of scaling through legislative hurdles.

Malami Auwalu Gwalabe, who spoke to reporters on behalf of the caucus at the National Assembly complex in Abuja, called on the National Assembly to repeal Section 3 of 1999 to pave the way for the creation of Katagum State and additional local governments.

Gwalabe who represents the Katagum federal constituency of Bauchi state remarked that the proposal for the creation of Katagum State has been on for a while and has widespread support from people of the area as well as members of the parliament from the state and beyond.

The caucus claimed that Governor Bala Muhammad of Bauchi state is in full support of the renewed move for the creation of Katagum state.

Justifying the renewed push for the state, he noted: “On behalf of the entire people, the entire population of the United people of Katagum, Jama’are, and Misau who are the carved areas demanding for the creation of Katagum State. We are now going to hand over these documents in your presence to the clerk of the committee who will now transmit all the information to the main committee.

“We have the manpower, we have the land spread, we have the facilities. We agitated for, we have been agitating as far back as 1980 during the second republic when Shagari was the president and Olushola was the senate president. We have been agitating. We agitated for the second time, lost to Gombe.

“You should all be aware the members of the National Assembly who all come from these areas demanding for the creation of Katagum State have sent in, we have passed a motion, we did first reading in support of all of our people who come from the same carved area. We had a second reading and now probably we are going for a public hearing.

“In fact, we are even so much lucky to have some of our colleagues from Bauchi State who are not from the carved areas demanding the creation of Katagum State also supported us in signing, supporting us on our bills, including one of our Senators, Abdul Ningi as well, signed and supported this creation.

Also speaking, Ibrahim Gamawa said, the proposed Katagum State is already blessed with all the requirements for the creation of a state.