Ms Oduah, who is one of the patrons of the bill, disclosed to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday that the bill's section was a stage forward in meeting the desires and yearnings of South-East individuals.
The Bill was passed three years after it was presented in the Senate. It passed first perusing on June 22, 2016, and second perusing on June 7, 2017.
It was supported by Ms Oduah (PDP, Anambra North) and Samuel Anyanwu (PDP, Imo East).
Ms Oduah clarified that the bill was a reaction to the unfairness and minimization the general population were whining of throughout the years.
As indicated by her, when consented to, the bill will handle to a huge degree, the fomentations by advocates of Biafra.
"I feel extremely cheerful and I think everyone from over the River Niger will be exceptionally glad. What the section of this bill implies for us isn't that we are cheerful on the grounds that we are from that piece of the nation.
"It is on the grounds that equity is being done and afterward the divergence that is so clear is being tended to by the entry.
"With the section, we will have a similarity to all encompassing advancement originating from all parts of Nigeria and the empowering condition will be there for the South-East individuals.
"This bill is tied in with correcting the wrong and shutting the hole that divergence has so made for a district that has a tremendous insufficiency in foundation.
"Developing the district has been relatively incomprehensible. Along these lines, I am extremely upbeat.
"This to a substantial degree will cross over any barrier of difference and minimization that has prompted tumults in the district," he said.
Ms Oduah, who is Chairman, Senate Committee on Cooperation and Integration, alleviated feelings of trepidation that the House of Representatives was not in help of the bill.
She said "the House of Representatives has up to this minute agreed. Thus, for me the bill won't have the issue of section in the House of Representatives.
"Also, the dread that the commission may be filled with defilement isn't an issue in light of the fact that the bill is sure about who should man it.
"The bill is likewise clear on the wellsprings of income and what the income will be utilized for and the general population could stand up on the off chance that anything in spite of that is finished."
The official further said that the 10-year time span for the presence of the commission was not consecrated.
She noticed that the bill gave that it was liable to endorsement for augmentation by the President at the lapse of 10 years if the need be.
She praised her partners for considering it fit to pass the bill.
Ms Oduah encouraged President Muhammadu Buhari to consent to the bill when transmitted to him, including that it would stand out forever that he marked a law that conveyed help to the general population.
NAN reports that the proposed commission goes for improving the infrastructural improvement of the South-East, which is thinking about colossal biological difficulties.
The bill for the commission looks to go about as an impetus for the improvement of the business capability of the zone.
The proposed enactment requires the simultaneousness of the House of Representatives to end up a bill of the National Assembly.
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