NIGER DELTA RIVALRY WILL BE REVISITED IN AN ABUJA FEDERAL HIGH COURT THIS COMING WEEK.

 

By Dr Ejiro Imuere

It is going to be a clash of the Titans as the Itsekiri Nation will be fighting hard for her Political survival for Warri Township. The Itsekiris have already lost and given the Political control of Warri South-West and Warri-North LGA to the Ijaws. Their only hope to dominate the Warri FEDERAL Constituency is now Warri-South LGA.

But instead of them to be strategic before now to make the Urhobos their friends, they turned against them in their inordinate greed. Now the Ijaws and the Urhobos are now political allies. The Interim Injunction the Itsekiris secured AGAINST INEC over the recent Ward delineations in the Warri FEDERAL Constituency, earlier this week will as usual expire on the 15th of August.

Then the motion for the interlocutory injunction will now be moved, where the Judge of the Federal high court Justice Nwite will hear from both sides, and then decide whether to grant an interlocutory injunction in the case. On one side of this battle is the Itsekiri NATION, ably represented with two SANs, very popular ones and highly connected.

One the other side are three formidable opponents which are INEC, the Urhobos and the Ijaws. These three have also mobilized a total of six SANs on their own side. So can the Itsekiri two SANs defeat the six SANs of the opposite party much more when one of the Party is a Federal Government Agency (INEC).

Can the Itsekiris Succeed using the Courts to stop INEC for a Message that the Supreme Court herself sent INEC to carry out? Can the Itsekiris Succeed in a case that had been litigated in another Federal high court in Warri before Justice Okon Abang, who dismissed a suit last year with a similar Subject matter, even when INEC made no defense?

Let us see how the Titans will clash this week. Once again Niger DELTA Rivalry usually enrich the Nigerian Jurisprudence. We are going to see if the Federal high court will over rule the Judgment of the Supreme Court and also a Subject matter that other courts with coordinate Jurisdiction have pronounced upon.

For all the dramatis personae, this is a do or dies affair, particularly for the Urhobos of Warri South LGA. Because if the Courts rules in favour of the Itsekiris, then the Urhobos of Warri South are finished Politically and they will go into Political oblivion. But if the Judge rules against the Itsekiris, then , their Nakedness over the ownership and control of Warri is gone and gone forever.

They will now face their karma. They will now be the ones crying to have a Local Government of their own. For those of you who are interested in Supporting the Urhobos of Warri South LGA, this kind of case require funding. That they didn't come out to meet anyone to support them financially does not mean that they don't need funds.

You can reach out to them and give whatever support.

If we win this case, then the Township will be ours and ours it shall be forever.

It is only going to be restored to us, because it has always been our stolen Property.

WADO CITY Wadooooo.