Ijaws are not part of Warri South, Urhobos in Warri write NSA

Two focal persons, under the auspices of " Urhobos of Warri South Local Government Area" ; Chief Westham Adehor and Hon. Mark Ikpuri, have written the National Security Adviser, NSA, Nuhu Ribadu, notifying him that the Ijaws are not from Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State.                                                       

In the letter dated May 15, the duo of Chief Westham Adehor and Hon. Mark Ikpuri, protested their exclusion form a scheduled stakeholders -meeting with the National Security Adviser.          

Fresh Angle International, understands that the stakeholders - meeting fixed for Monday May 19 at the Office of NSA in Abuja, is expected to address the contentious INEC ward and unit delineation exercise in Warri Federal Constituency.

The letter which copied the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC and the Delta State REC of the Commission, noted inter - alia :"PROTEST LETTER ON THE EXCLUSION FROM THE SCHEDULED STAKEHOLDERS MEETING WITH THE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER ON THE COURT ORDERED INEC DELINEATION EXERCISE

"We, the undersigned Urhobos of Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, write to protest our exclusion from the scheduled meeting with the National Security Adviser on the contentious INEC delineation exercise. We have been the ones representing the Urhobos of Warri South in all the stakeholder meetings on the invitation of INEC but since the proposed field report came out from INEC, we found out that it does not reflect the true pictures/position of what was captured in the Urhobo axis.

"We wrote series of letters to INEC to state our position, that the Ijaws are not part of Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State and the area captured by INEC are Agbarha areas.

"Since our publication on Vanguard, Friday 2nd May 2025 to INEC titled; JOINT PRESS CONFERENCE BY THE IJAWS AND URHOBOS OF WARRI ON THE REPORT OF THE FIELD WORK ON THE FRESH DELINEATION OF ELECTORAL WARDS AND POLLING UNITS AND THREATS TO PEACE AND SECURITY IN WARRI FEDERAL CONSTITUENCY OF DELTA STATE THIS 30 DAY OF APRIL, 2025, we were surprised that, we were excluded from the stakeholders meeting called by the office of the NSA dated the 19th day of May 2025.

"We chose to be granted audience to be part of this meeting for proper representation of our people."

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