Urhobos of Warri in Delta South Fault a communique published by Dr Alex Ideh and His Cohorts Purportedly on behalf of the APC in Delta South Senatorial District

By Wilson Macaulay

Warri

Urhobo  Ethic Nationality  APC Members who are Indigenes of Okere Urhobo and Agbarha Warri Kingdoms  in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta South Senatorial District, has faulted in strong terms a communique published by  Dr Alex  ldeh and his Cohorts Purportedly 

onbehalf of the APC in Delta South Senatorial District after hosting an illegal meeting.

An official statement signed by Mr. Benjamin Eboh & Hon. Gabriel Okandeji, 

On behalf of  the Urhobo APC Leaders / Members of Okere Urhobo and Agbarha Warri Kingdoms comprising 6 INEC Electoral Wards in Warri South LGA made available to our Correspondent,

reads in part: "Our attention has just been drawn to a “Communique” authored by Dr. Alex Ideh and others purportedly on behalf of the APC in Delta South Senatorial District following an illegal meeting of the party hosted by him."

The statement stressed that ,in that illegal meeting, Dr Alex Ideh and others  attempted to subvert the rights of the Urhobo Ethnic Nationality in Delta South Senatorial District by making statements that certain federal appointments should only come to persons of the other 3 ethnic groups (Ijaw, Isoko and Itsekiri) in the Senatorial District excluding the Urhobo Ethnic Nationality in the Senatorial District. They went further to list one Mrs Mary Obrutche as supporting / signing their warped “communique” on behalf of the Urhobo Ethinic Nationality in Delta South Senatorial District. This is indeed criminal.

 They made a clarification saying : "We are  indigenous Urhobos of Delta South Senatorial District occupying  two legally recognized indigenous and independent kingdoms. These are the Okere Urhobo Kingdom of Warri South Local Government Area with our traditional ruler, the Oroseun of Okere Urhobo Kingdom and Agbarha Warri Kingdom of Warri South Local Government Area with our traditional ruler the Ovie of Agbarha Warri."

In addition, they went further to affirm:  "our two urhobo Kingdoms in Warri have six Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) delineated wards in Warri South Local Government Area out of the total 12 INEC wards in Warri South Local Government Area. We are  indigenous Urhobos in the Okere Urhobo and Agbarha Warri Kingdoms with 6 INEC Wards in Warri South Local Government Area which have the same political rights accruable to the Ijaw, Isoko and Itsekiri indigenes in the Delta South Senatorial District."

 The Urhobos of Warri South pointed out that ,  Dr Alex Ideh and the others with him in their  desperation exposed both their ignorance of the relevant laws on the appointment of persons, and of their puny selfish agenda, in their so called “communique” laced with lies and innuendoes. To embellish his devilish agenda with a veneer of broad acceptance, Dr Ideh and his band even recruited one Mrs. Mary Obrutche to sign and endorse the so-called “communique” on behalf of the Urhobo Ethnic Nationality of Delta South Senatorial District. Mrs. Mary Obrutche was not mandated by us, the Urhobos of Delta South Senatorial District, to agree to a Communique that proposes to exclude us from Federal appointments which is our right under the Nigerian Constitution.

 The statement assertted unequivocally  that Mrs. Mary Obrutche is not an Urhobo indigene of Warri South Local Government or Delta South Senatorial District. She is not from Okere Urhobo Kingdom. She is not from Agbarha Warri Kingdom. She is indeed from Uwheru in Ughelli North Local Government Area. She was never mandated by us to speak on behalf of us – the Urhobos of Delta South Senatorial District. She was never mandated by us to agree / sign a ”communique” proposing to exclude us from Federal appointments.

We, the Urhobo indigenes of Warri South Local Government are entitled to equal political rights / federal appointments as all other indigenes (ijaws, isokos, itsekiris) in Delta South Senatoria