Lord of Warri on X, posts data in reaction to INEC's report on Ward Delineation in Warri Federal Constituency

This is straight from @inecnigeria’s own data on the original voting wards before this fraudulent new proposal by an Ijaw woman named Rhoda Gumus at INEC, who shamelessly slashed Itsekiri voting power to nothing.

If this isn’t outright fraud, let her come out and explain what grounds she used to cook up this scandalous scam of voting wards favoring Ijaws!

Look at the evidence below for Warri North: Itsekiris had 6 wards, Ijaws had 4. Now, per INEC’s so-called reviewed report, out of 18 wards, Itsekiris—with 75,912 registered voters and 134 polling units—are left with just 8 wards. Meanwhile, Ijaws, with a measly 35,480 voters and 58 polling units, now have 10 wards! Explain that!

Then there’s Warri South West and Warri South, where this Ijaw INEC woman gutted Itsekiri voter strength like it’s her personal playground.

In Warri South West, Itsekiris, with 94,074 voters and 175 polling units, previously had 6 wards. Now, INEC’s report cuts them down to 5 wards out of 19. Ijaws, with 95,046 voters and 147 polling units, who had 4 wards before, now grab 14 wards! How does that add up?

In Warri South, Itsekiris, with 88,309 voters and 174 polling units, originally had 6 wards. Now they’re bumped to 8 wards. But Urhobos, with just 38,000 voters and 72 polling units, who had 4 wards, got an illegal delineation in 1999 that equalized their wards to ours at 6. Now, with this new INEC proposal, they’ve been handed 10 wards! And in the mixed demographic area—51,517 voters, 105 units, where traders, fish sellers, cow sellers, meat sellers, and cloth sellers operate—the Ijaws somehow scored two voting wards. This is fraud in broad daylight! Warri Delineation: INEC Has Allowed Itself To Be Misled By Ijaws, Itsekiri Leader Justifies Protest

We Itsekiris always back our words with hard facts, and @inecnigeria needs to step up and explain this mess! 

How does a fish market suddenly become a community and even got a voting ward in their sham of a proposed delineation for Warri Federal Constituency? And while they’re at it, let them clarify how they invented fake communities that don’t even exist! Since when did INEC become the state or local government that gets to create communities out of thin air?

They should also explain why on earth did they let an Ijaw woman from Bayelsa, Rhoda Gumus, run the entire delineation process involving Ijaws, Itsekiris, and Urhobos? Did they not see the glaring conflict of interest? She’s turned her minority Ijaw group in Warri Federal Constituency into the majority, handing them an absurd number of wards while slashing Itsekiri voting wards to nearly nothing and outright erasing many of our populous communities!

This blatant fraud will NOT go unchallenged!

By Lord_of_Warri on X (Twitter).

Itsekiri Activist and Historian

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