Police foils attempt to raze Delta INEC office

Police operatives in Delta State on Tuesday foiled an attempt by some unidentified youths to destroy an area office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Warri.

According to reports, the young men, armed with weapons and containers filled with substance suspected to be fuel, chanted war songs and made moves to force their way into the local INEC premises, while its officials were out for delineation of electoral units and wards, in compliance with a Supreme Court judgment.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Bright Edafe, confirmed the incident.

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Political sources hinted that while the Warri indigenous Urhobo and their Ijaw counterparts were in support of the implementation of the Supreme Court judgment on the delineation of electoral units and wards in the Warri federal constituency, the Itsekiri were alleged to have opposed the exercise.

Recall that INEC officials had last Wednesday visited Gbaramatu Kingdom in the Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State for the commencement of the wards/units’ delineation.

The commission’s officials visited Oporoza, the traditional headquarters of the Gbaramatu Kingdom and began a fresh delineation of electoral wards and polling units in the Warri Federal Constituency.

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