INC condemns FG’s suspension of Warri Federal Constituency delineation

By Samuel Oyadongha, Yenagoa

The Ijaw National Congress (INC) has condemned the suspension of the Supreme Court-ordered delineation of wards successful the Warri Federal Constituency by the Federal Government.

Speaking successful Yenagoa connected Monday, INC President, Prof. Benjamin Okaba, described the directive, reportedly issued done the Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA), arsenic a setback to electoral justness and an erosion of judicial authority.

Okaba stressed that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was acting successful compliance with a Supreme Court judgement delivered connected December 2, 2022, erstwhile it commenced the ward delineation exercise.

“The suspension of this process nether the pretext of information concerns undermines the regularisation of instrumentality and creates the content that tribunal orders tin beryllium disregarded erstwhile they struggle with governmental interests,” Okaba said.

According to him, the improvement places INEC successful a hard presumption of having to take betwixt pursuing the directive of the Federal Government oregon adhering to the judgement of the nation’s highest court.

He warned that halting the process could substance discontent alternatively than foster peace.

“The peaceful and lawful pursuit of justness done the courts indispensable not beryllium rendered futile. Suspending this workout risks sending the incorrect connection to Nigerians,” Okaba added.

The INC demanded the contiguous resumption of the ward delineation exercise, citing concerns astir the independency of INEC, the authorization of the Supreme Court, and the close of voters successful Warri Federal Constituency to equitable representation.

The radical further called connected the Presidency, the National Assembly, and the planetary assemblage to instrumentality enactment of the situation, vowing to prosecute each disposable legal, political, and diplomatic avenues to guarantee compliance with the Supreme Court’s judgment.

“We impulse calm among the Ijaw radical but stress the request for vigilance. We stay committed to lawful means to unafraid justness and to uphold the integrity of the judiciary,” Okaba said.

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