{"id":4614,"date":"2025-08-11T07:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T07:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/michael-johnny-to-ayiri-leave-inec-alone-ijaws-are-majority-in-warri-federal-constituency-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T07:33:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T07:33:53","slug":"michael-johnny-to-ayiri-leave-inec-alone-ijaws-are-majority-in-warri-federal-constituency-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/michael-johnny-to-ayiri-leave-inec-alone-ijaws-are-majority-in-warri-federal-constituency-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Johnny To Ayiri: Leave INEC Alone, Ijaws Are Majority In Warri Federal Constituency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Freeborn Abraye <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2014Urges Stakeholders to Focus on Development, Not Ethnic Division<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>High Chief Michael Johnny, Agadiwei of Gbaramatu Kingdom, Ijaw Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Delta State, and former Chairman of the Egbema Gbaramatu Communities Development Foundation (EGCDF), has refuted allegations by Chief Ayiri Emami against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over the recently concluded fresh Ward delineation in Warri Federal Constituency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement released on Sunday, August 10, 2025, Chief Johnny described Emami\u2019s claims as misleading and entirely false, stressing that INEC acted within the bounds of the law and in line with the Supreme Court\u2019s directive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cINEC cannot be intimidated or blackmailed into tampering with the field work reports already concluded in Warri Federal Constituency,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnny clarified that the delineation was carried out based on verified field data, focusing on population, communities, and geographic realities, without bias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere is nothing like \u2018projected census\u2019 in the Electoral Act or in the National Population Commission. The outcome only confirmed what is already known: that the Ijaws are the majority in Warri Federal Constituency,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: GbaramatuVoice<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Freeborn Abraye \u2014Urges Stakeholders to Focus on Development, Not Ethnic Division High Chief Michael&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[1339,1338],"class_list":["post-4614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ijaws-are-majority-in-warri-federal-constituency","tag-michael-johnny-to-ayiri-leave-inec-alone"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_1831-2-1.jpg?fit=962%2C708&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4613,"url":"https:\/\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/michael-johnny-to-ayiri-leave-inec-alone-ijaws-are-majority-in-warri-federal-constituency\/","url_meta":{"origin":4614,"position":0},"title":"Michael Johnny To Ayiri: Leave INEC Alone, Ijaws Are Majority In Warri Federal Constituency","author":"Freeborn Abraye","date":"August 11, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"By Freeborn Abraye \u2014Urges Stakeholders to Focus on Development, Not Ethnic Division High Chief Michael Johnny, Agadiwei of Gbaramatu Kingdom, Ijaw Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Delta State, and former Chairman of the Egbema Gbaramatu Communities Development Foundation (EGCDF), has refuted allegations by Chief Ayiri Emami against the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_1829-1.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_1829-1.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_1829-1.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_1829-1.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_1829-1.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4621,"url":"https:\/\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/the-truth-behind-ayiri-emamis-misinformation-on-inecs-warri-federal-constituency-delineation___prince-igbiriki\/","url_meta":{"origin":4614,"position":1},"title":"The Truth Behind Ayiri Emami\u2019s Misinformation On INEC\u2019s Warri Federal Constituency Delineation___Julius Timi Igbiriki","author":"Freeborn Abraye","date":"August 11, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"By Esther David In recent weeks, Chief Ayiri Emami has been on a media tour, accusing the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of bias in its delineation of the Warri Federal Constituency. 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