Constituency delineation: Itsekiri leaders reject INEC data

The Itsekiri Leaders of Thought, ILOT, connected Thursday rejected the caller delineation of wards, polling units, authorities constituencies and 1 further national constituency projected by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for Warri Federal constituency. 

This is contained successful a property connection released by the Secretary of Itsekiri Leaders of Thought, Sir. Amorighoye Sunny Mene successful the aboriginal hours of Thursday. 

The ILOT said the INEC study connected the delineation, which was released yesterday, was anchored connected “earlier rejected fraudulent data” released by the Commission connected April 4, 2025 astatine Asaba successful Delta State.

According to ILOT, the fieldwork and GIS mapping conducted by the INEC, as  released connected Wednesday May 20 to stakeholders astatine Asaba, does not comply with the provisions of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended), the Electoral Act 2026 and INEC’s ain guidelines for the delineation of wards and polling units.

It stressed that Itsekiri Nation rejects immoderate effort to “rely connected unofficial colonisation estimate, aerial mapping interpretations, oregon artificially created assemblage structures arsenic the ground for electoral delineation.”