Nigeria, Nov. 6 -- Adams Oshiomhole, the senator representing Edo North Senatorial District in the 10th National Assembly, has claimed that President Bola Tinubu's administration secured recognition for Cross River State as an oil-producing state, a development he said would permanently increase the state's revenue.

However, official government records, including federal revenue allocation reports and a gazetted list of littoral host communities, contradict the claim.

At an All Progressives Congress (APC) rally in Calabar on 2 November to mobilise support for Mr Tinubu's 2027 re-election bid, Mr Oshiomhole, the deputy director-general for Mobilisation of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, told the crowd that Cross River had regained...