His long drawn advocacy for his people culminated in 97 Senators supporting the creation of Anioma out of Delta State. He said ” I must state without equivocation that we are Igbo, Anioma is made up of nine local government areas in Delta state. 97 senators signed up for the creation of Anioma State. Delta State is the only State that have two airports. I grew up to know that we were called Western Igbo, later Bendel Igbo and currently Delta Igbo.