The exclusion of Urhobos from a Monday meeting with National Security Advisor (NSA) Nuhu Ribadu has been contested by Urhobos in Delta State’s Warri South LIGA.
The dispute surrounding the Warri South delineation by the Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC, was the main topic of the intended daily meeting.
The Urhobos expressed their displeasure at being excluded from the conference in a petition letter written by Chief Westham Adehor and Hon. Mark Ikputi on May 15, 2025, which was seen on Sunday in Abuja.
The pair requested that they be “given permission to attend this meeting in order to ensure that our people are properly represented.”
The letter’s body stated: “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.”
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As the representatives of the Urhobos of Warri South, they said they have also attended a number of meetings at INEC’s invitation.
Furthermore, they informed the electoral umpire that the ljaws belonged to the Agbarha areas and not the Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, claiming that the INEC report did not accurately reflect the results obtained in the Urhobo axis.
They bemoaned the fact that they had started to be excluded from meetings after holding a widely reported press conference on Friday, May 2, 2025, about the controversy surrounding the ward and polling unit boundaries in Warri South.
They said, “We decided to be given a chance to attend this meeting in order to properly represent our people.”
