{"id":5512,"date":"2026-04-22T13:43:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/any-primary-election-conducted-without-the-implementation-of-warri-federal-constituency-delineation-report-will-be-considered-null-and-void___abraye\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:01:18","slug":"any-primary-election-conducted-without-the-implementation-of-warri-federal-constituency-delineation-report-will-be-considered-null-and-void___abraye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/any-primary-election-conducted-without-the-implementation-of-warri-federal-constituency-delineation-report-will-be-considered-null-and-void___abraye\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAny Primary Election Conducted Without The Implementation Of Warri Federal Constituency Delineation Report Will Be Resisted\u201d___Abraye"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Ebiowei Gabriel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4\">The National Coordinator of the Niger Delta Advocates For Peace, Development And Economic Justice (NDAPDEJ), Comrade Freeborn Abraye, has issued a stern warning to political actors, institutions, and vested interests attempting to manipulate the political process in Warri Federal Constituency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4\">According to Abraye, <strong>any primary election conducted under the obsolete ten-ward structure is a criminal subversion of the law, a direct violation of the Supreme Court-backed delineation exercise, and is therefore null, void, and of no consequence whatsoever.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4\">\u201cThis is not politics as usual, this is outright electoral fraud,\u201d Abraye declared. \u201cThe old ward structure is dead, buried, and legally extinguished. Any individual or group attempting to resurrect it for selfish political advantage is engaging in a deliberate act of injustice and provocation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4\">He described such actions as a <strong>coordinated attempt to perpetuate decades of political domination, systemic exclusion, and engineered marginalization<\/strong> of other ethnic nationalities within Warri Federal Constituency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4\">\u201cWe are witnessing a desperate and calculated effort to cling to illegitimate control by bypassing a legally recognized delineation. This is nothing but political robbery in broad daylight,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4\">Abraye made it unequivocally clear that the people will <strong>not participate in, endorse, or recognize any process built on illegality and deception.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4\">\u201cWe will not accept another cycle of marginalization, disenfranchisement, backwardness, and economic strangulation imposed through manipulated political structures. Enough is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4\">He further warned that any attempt to impose candidates or outcomes derived from such fraudulent primaries would be met with <strong>total rejection and mass resistance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4\">\u201cLet it be clearly understood: any candidate that emerges from this illegal process is a product of fraud and will be treated as such by the people. There will be no legitimacy, no acceptance, and no peace for injustice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4\">Abraye accused certain interests of <strong>weaponizing outdated structures to silence and suppress the collective will of the people<\/strong>, insisting that such tactics will no longer be tolerated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4\">\u201cWarri Federal Constituency does not belong to any single ethnic group. It is not a private estate to be controlled through manipulation and exclusion. The era of political hegemony disguised as democracy is over.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4\">He called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), political parties, and security agencies to <strong>immediately halt any process that fails to comply with the new delineation framework<\/strong>, warning that failure to do so would amount to complicity in electoral injustice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4\">\u201cINEC and all relevant authorities must understand that neutrality in the face of injustice is unacceptable. The law must be upheld, and the delineation report must be fully implemented before any legitimate political activity can take place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4\">Abraye concluded with a strong warning:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe will resist this injustice with every legitimate and democratic means available. The peace of Warri Federal Constituency cannot and will not be guaranteed where there is no justice, no fairness, and no equity. Those attempting to drag us backwards should be prepared for the consequences of their actions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ebiowei Gabriel The National Coordinator of the Niger Delta Advocates For Peace, Development And&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5513,"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":"\u201cAny Primary Election Conducted Without The Implementation Of Warri Federal Constituency Delineation Report Will Be Considered Null And Void\u201d___Abraye","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":[],"class_list":["post-5512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_0964.jpg?fit=1237%2C930&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5517,"url":"https:\/\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/breaking-niger-delta-rights-group-vows-to-disrupt-primary-elections-in-warri-federal-constituency-without-implementation-of-supreme-court-ordered-delineation-report\/","url_meta":{"origin":5512,"position":0},"title":"BREAKING: Niger Delta Rights Group Vows To Disrupt Primary Elections In Warri Federal Constituency Without Implementation Of Supreme Court Ordered Delineation Report","author":"Freeborn Abraye","date":"April 23, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"By Esther David Comrade Freeborn Abraye, National Coordinator of the Niger Delta Advocates For Peace, Development And Economic Justice (NDAPDEJ), has issued a blistering, no-holds-barred warning to political parties scheming to conduct primary elections in Warri Federal Constituency without implementing the Supreme Court\u2013ordered delineation. 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