Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) has begun a recent delineation of electoral wards and polling items within the Warri federal constituency, Delta State.
Over 50 individuals, comprising technical officers and assist employees from nationwide headquarters and state workplace, are already on the bottom, preparatory to transferring into the three native authorities areas, to start fieldwork from Wednesday tenth -Twenty seventh July 2024.
The transfer is to implement a ruling of the Supreme Court docket, ordering the electoral umpire to reassign wards and polling items throughout Warri South, Warri South West and Warri North native authorities areas.
Flagging off the delineation course of on Monday in Warri, Prof Yakubu Mahmood, INEC nationwide chairman, mentioned the fee was prepared, and the three ethnic teams have been ready.
Represented by Prof Rhoda Gumus, he mentioned, “Proper now, we’re assembly on how one can proceed. I’m representing the nationwide chairman. The three focal individuals of the ethnic teams are assembly with us.”
Talking on the theme, “Stakeholders Assembly for the Implementation of the Supreme Court docket judgment on Contemporary Delineation of Wards and Polling Models in Warri Federal Constituency,” he highlighted the energetic engagement of ethnic group representatives in shaping the delineation course of.
“The way in which ahead is that we’re prepared. We got here because of our chairman sending us.
I’m representing our chairman,” he mentioned.
Addressing attendees on the assembly, the Delta State resident electoral commissioner, Sir Etekamba Umoren, underscored the assembly’s significance in complying with the Supreme Court docket’s directive on electoral boundaries.
“At the moment’s gathering marks the graduation of implementing the Supreme Court docket’s ruling on the recent delineation of the Warri Federal Constituency,” he affirmed.
“The selection of Warri South because the venue of this stakeholders’ assembly will not be solely premised on the truth that Warri South LGA is the headquarters of Warri Federal Constituency but in addition one of many key agreements by the focal/contact individuals representing the three ethnic nationalities of the Ijaw, Itsekiri and Urhobo, at a gathering held in INEC state workplace, Asaba, on Friday, April 29, 2024 and accepted by the fee.
“Therefore, we’re gathered right here right this moment for this all-important assembly. “It’s only becoming and correct that stakeholder engagement previous the mobilisation of the technical employees of the fee should be inside the precinct of the theatre of operations, on this occasion, the three native authorities areas that make up the constituency.
“Additionally it is price noting that the calibre of illustration on this assembly from the fee’s headquarters, Abuja, signposts the fee’s readiness to start fieldwork on the recent delineation of the constituency in compliance with the Supreme Court docket Judgment,” he said.
Many political leaders and representatives of Ijaw, Urhobo, and Itsekiri ethnic nationalities have been on the assembly.