Ijaw, Urhobo Storm INEC Hqtrs For Final Report Of Warri Constituency Delineation

The Ijaw and Urhobo radical of Warri national constituency successful Delta State yesterday stormed the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) successful Abuja, demanding the urgent merchandise of the last study of the Supreme Court-ordered caller delineation of registration areas/wards and polling units successful the constituency.

The peaceful protesters maintained that the merchandise of the study would alteration them enactment successful the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise, threatening to inhabit the INEC caput bureau if their demands are not met.

Some of the protesters carried placards with assorted inscriptions specified arsenic “Warri Federal Constituency No Ward, No Units for CVR”, “CVR contiguous is simply a governmental fraud successful Warri Federal Constituency”, and “INEC, springiness america the last report”.

The peaceful protestation was led by Dr Joel Bisina, Olorogun Victor Okumagba, Godspower Gbenekama, John Eramvor, Dr Paul Bebenimibo, Sylvester Femi Okumagba, Arthur Akpodubakaye and Wilson Ogbodu.

Others see Emmanuel Sezondi, Ann Gagiyovwi, Rev. Samuel Ako, Amb. Jude Ebitimi Ukori, Hon. Frank Pukon, David Reje, Vero Emmauel Tangbewei and Comrade Margaret Ikinbor.

The protesters insisted that they were afloat alert of the ineligible attempts and undue influences from assorted quarters to derail oregon truncate the process.

“It was your resilience and resolved determination that made it imaginable for the projected registration country (RA) /wards and units to beryllium publically presented”, they chorused to INEC.

In a petition submitted to INEC, the 2 taste nationalities said; “it is this shared determination and resoluteness to bash the close happening that has kept america patiently for the past 5 months, hoping that you volition reason the process earlier commencing a aboriginal electoral process done the instrumentality of the ongoing Voter’s Registration workout successful the Warri Federal Constituency which is an affront to the judiciary.

“We were invited to assorted stakeholders gathering by your electoral officers successful Warri North, Warri South and Warri South-West Local Government Area informing america that you person commenced the continuous Voter’s Registration CVR workout successful the aforementioned LGA utilizing the defunct statement which fell look down successful the eyes of the law.

“Our Patience and practice is being taken for granted arsenic you person acceptable machinery successful spot to disenfranchise america from participating successful aboriginal elections. We tin nary longer hold portion our antiauthoritarian rights guaranteed by the constitution and reaffirmed by the ultimate tribunal judgement are being eroded.

“We decided to question from Warri Federal Constituency to gully your attraction to our plight and to fto you cognize that we volition not let immoderate institutions oregon outer influences and pressures to let our inalienable rights to beryllium petered distant by those bent connected causing disorder successful Warri Federal Constituency, Niger Delta Region and by hold Nigeria.

“We volition proceed to inhabit your premises INEC until our cardinal quality rights to ballot and beryllium voted for are restored to america with a wide absorption and accusation of wherever and however we should enactment successful the ongoing exercise.

“This travel and protestation signals signifier 2 of our committedness to nonviolently reconstruct our governmental dignity. As you could observe from the bid of property appearances and protestation connected this contented we person been placed connected accordant unit from our radical which we whitethorn not beryllium capable to incorporate successful the future.

“Our irrevocable request and conclusion: INEC should instantly merchandise and instrumentality the study painstakingly embarked upon by stakeholders. We shall not beryllium idly standby and ticker our antiauthoritarian rights and franchise fretted away.”

Addressing the protesters connected behalf of the commission, INEC National Commissioner, Prof. Abdullahi Zuri who was accompanied by the Commission’s Secretary, Rose Anthony-Oriarian and different officials said helium would convey their concerns to the due authorities.

He said; “Let maine usage this accidental to convey you astir sincerely for this peaceful attack to handling these issues you person raised. I person listened carefully. We person work done your submission and the radical present person heard what you said. I volition tender this papers that you person presented to the commission.

“The committee volition look astatine this and volition enactment connected it. But fto maine guarantee you that arsenic a commission, we are a law-abiding institution. And arsenic citizens, we are besides law-abiding citizens. Whatever the instrumentality says it has taken a determination on, we enactment connected it.

“So, I volition guarantee you that determination is nary volition whatsoever, arsenic acold arsenic INEC is concerned, to disenfranchise anybody from immoderate exercise. It is our responsibility, it is our duty. If we don’t guarantee that each Nigerian participates successful each ...