INEC: Urhobos protest exclusion from meeting with NSA on delineation controversy

The Urhobos have protested exclusion from meeting with the National Security Adviser, NSA, Nuhu Ribadu ahead of Monday to discuss the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC’s delineation controversy in Abuja.

The protest arising from the Independent National Electoral Commission delineation of Wards in Warri South, has generated tension amid cries of injustices.

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A copy of the letter dated May 15 2025, jointly signed by Chief Westham Adehor and Honourable Mark Ikpuri, they faulted their exclusion from the meeting, saying justice would not served without their involvement.

The duo asked that they be “granted audience to be part of this meeting for proper representation of our people.”

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The statement read in part: “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 ljaws 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 in April 30, 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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