A group of constituents from Itsekiri community in Delta, known as Warri Reclamation Trust, has called on INEC to jettison its report on the proposed delineation of Warri Federal Constituency which was presented to stakeholders on April 4.
The group’s Convener, Mrs Tsaye Mene, while presenting a petition to INEC at the commission’s headquarters on Monday in Abuja, said the document must not be allowed to scale through.
Mene urged INEC to do proper job on the matter, in line with the Supreme Court judgment, before the implementation of any delineation in the constituency.
She said that the group had carried out a thorough analysis of the document presented by INEC and discovered some distortion of facts on the units and wards proposed for the federal constituency by INEC.
Mene said it was discovered that communities from Edo and Ondo states were imported into Warri North to create more wards for some group
She also alleged that communities from other local government areas, such as Ughelli South, Udu and Burutu were erroneously imported into Warri South-West Local Government Area to create more wards for the Ijaws.
Mene also claimed that fictitious communities were created, while some Itsekiri communities were renamed with Ijaw names in favour of the ijaws to have more wards against the Itsekiris.
Mene said that all these were being done in spite court judgements, up to the supreme supreme, all of which declared Itsekiris as landlords and historical owners of all the lands in Warri federal constituency.
Mr Bright Omaghomi, Co-Convener of the group, said that going by the evidence uncovered from the report, it showed that INEC did not do diligent work, hence the report should be jettisoned in its entirety.
Omaghomi syated that the document also claimed that the Ijaws had more population than the itshekiris, against the 2006 population census report.
He said that INEC lacked the power to create constituency and rename communities or give them something that belonged to Itsekiri to the Ijaws.
