Urhobos in Delta State’s Warri South Local Government Area have objected to being left out of a Monday meeting with National Security Advisor (NSA) Nuhu Ribadu.

The purpose of the conference was to talk about the dispute surrounding Warri South’s demarcation by the Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC.

The Urhobos protested their exclusion from the conference in a petition letter signed by Chief Westham Adehor and Hon. Mark Ikputi on May 15, 2025, which was seen by the in Abuja on Sunday.

To properly represent our people, the two requested that they be “granted audience to be part of this meeting.”

“We, the undersigned Urhobos of Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, write to protest our exclusion from the scheduled meeting with the National Security Adviser on the contentious INEC delineation exercise,” the letter said in part.

The Urhobos of Warri South have been represented by them, they stated, and they have also attended a number of meetings at INEC’s invitation.

They further asserted that the INEC report did not accurately represent the results obtained in the Urhobo axis, telling the electoral umpire that the Ljaws belonged to the Agbarha areas and not the Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State.

They said that since they conducted a well reported press conference on Friday, May 2, 2025, about the ward and polling unit delineation controversy in Warri South, they had started to be excluded from meetings.

“In order to properly represent our people, we decided to be given an audience to attend this meeting,” they said.