“INEC’s Deliberate Delay In The Implementation Of Warri Federal Constituency Delineation Report Is A War Against Democracy, Threat To Peace And Law In Warri”_

By Uche Alvin

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA,
THE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER
AND THE NIGERIAN PUBLIC

BY THE WARRI FEDERAL CONSTITUENCY YOUTHS OF PROGRESSIVE MANDATE
DATE: 13/12/2025

SUBJECT: WAR AGAINST DEMOCRACY, INEC’S SILENCE IS A DIRECT THREAT TO PEACE, LAW AND THE SURVIVAL OF WARRI FEDERAL CONSTITUENCY

We write today not out of impatience but out of accumulated outrage. What is unfolding in Warri Federal Constituency is no longer a bureaucratic delay; it has become a deliberate strangulation of democratic truth. INEC, an institution constitutionally empowered to protect the sanctity of the ballot, has chosen instead to sit on a concluded ward delineation exercise, refusing to announce a final result that it has already seen, verified and documented. This silence is not neutral. It is dangerous. It is provocative. And it is fast pushing a fragile polity toward the edge.

Let it be stated clearly and without apology: once an electoral body completes a statutory exercise, conducts field verification, compiles findings and still withholds the outcome, it crosses from administrative caution into willful subversion. What is happening in Warri is not accidental inefficiency; it bears the fingerprints of conscious suppression. Democracy does not collapse only through coups; it also dies quietly when institutions entrusted with truth decide to bury it.

The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended), is not decorative literature. Section 14(2)(a) affirms that sovereignty belongs to the people from whom government derives all authority. Section 14(2)(c) further insists that participation by the people in their governance shall be ensured. When INEC withholds a final delineation result that determines representation, voting power and political equality, it directly assaults these constitutional guarantees. Representation delayed is representation denied.

Even more troubling is the contempt shown toward judicial authority. The Supreme Court of Nigeria, in Hon. George Timinimi & Ors v. INEC (SC/CV/1033/2022), did not issue a suggestion; it issued a binding directive. Under Section 287 of the Constitution, decisions of the Supreme Court are final and must be enforced by all authorities and persons. INEC has no discretion to obey selectively. To ignore, dilute or stall compliance is to place itself above the apex court and by extension, above the Constitution itself. That path leads only to institutional anarchy.

We warn the Federal Government and the Office of the National Security Adviser: the sustained refusal to release this result is breeding anger that no security architecture can permanently contain. Communities that have endured decades of demographic manipulation, political erasure and administrative injustice are watching closely. When lawful channels are blocked, pressure does not disappear, it mutates. No responsible government should allow an electoral agency’s silence to ignite avoidable unrest.

INEC’s posture has now created a national danger. It sends a chilling message that court judgments can be negotiated, facts can be suppressed and democracy can be paused to satisfy vested interests. If this precedent is allowed to stand in Warri, it will not stop there. Tomorrow it will be another constituency, another state, another suppressed truth. A democracy that tolerates selective justice is already in cardiac arrest.

We therefore place this responsibility squarely before the Federal Government: history will record not only INEC’s actions but also the silence or intervention of those constitutionally empowered to restrain it. The National Security Adviser must understand that electoral injustice is a security threat. Political exclusion fuels instability faster than any weapon. Preventing crisis sometimes requires enforcing truth, not postponing it.

This letter is not a plea. It is a final civic warning. The continued suppression of the final ward delineation result in Warri Federal Constituency is an invitation to disorder and Nigeria can ill-afford another self-inflicted wound. The Constitution must speak louder than private interests. The Supreme Court must remain superior to administrative convenience. And democracy must not be sacrificed on the altar of delay.

The result must be released. Now.

Anything short of that will confirm fears that Nigeria’s electoral umpire has abandoned neutrality and chosen complicity and the consequences of that choice will rest on those who had the power to stop it and refused.

Signed,

Dr, Perekeme Gbawene-owei ~ President

Comr, Power Avwerosuo ~ Secretary

Warri Federal Constituency Youths of Progressive Mandate
(Defenders of Truth, Custodians of Justice And The Voice of the Majority)

Cc:

Speaker, House of Assembly/Representatives

Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF)

Delta State Government

Major National Media Houses (Channels, Arise, AIT, Vanguard, Guardian)