Ijaw, Itsekiri agree power-sharing deal over Warri Federal Constituency

Ijaw and Itsekiri stakeholders person agreed a power-sharing woody connected Warri Federal Constituency II of Delta State aft President Bola Tinubu’s involution successful the quality implicit INEC’s ward delineation exercise.

The 2 Delta taste groups sealed the statement during a high-level gathering chaired by the National Security Adviser, NSA, Nuhu Ribadu, and attended by representatives of the Ijaw and Itsekiri taste groups.

In the presumption of the agreement, the House of Representatives spot successful the projected Warri Federal Constituency II volition rotate betwixt the Ijaw and Itsekiri nationalities.

According to the agreement, the Ijaw volition inhabit the spot for the archetypal 2 consecutive terms, aft which it volition rotate to the Itsekiri taste radical for the adjacent 2 terms.

This came aft President Tinubu’s gathering with Delta stakeholders astatine the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

At the meeting, Tinubu directed that 2 representatives from each of the 3 taste nationalities progressive successful the quality conscionable nether the NSA’s supervision to make a mutually acceptable governmental framework.

Signatories to the statement see erstwhile Deputy Governor of Delta State, Kingsley Otuaro, and Dr. Eric Omare for the Ijaw nationality.

The Itsekiri delegation was represented by Sir A.S. Mene and Chief Robinson Ariyo....