Egbema Youth Progressive Foundation (EYPF) has commended the peaceful resolution of the leadership tussle for the Chairmanship position of Warri North Local Government Area, Delta State under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) between the Itsekiris and the Ijaws.

The parties agreed that the Chairman and other positions in the council should be rotational and share 40% to 60%. They also agreed that Egbema Ijaw people should produce the Chairman for the upcoming election.

Leader of the group, Comrade Miyenpirigha Messiah Ebidouwei, said: “We want to use this medium to plead with our Itsekiri brothers in different political parties to withdraw their candidates in the spirit of brotherhood in the Local Government Area. Itsekiri has held the position of the Chairman since the creation of the Local Government, but the Ijaws in Warri North accepted this as a sacrifice in order to maintain stable relationship and peace in the region. However, some of the Itsekiri brothers have echoed this repugnant act for almost three decades towards the Ijaws as a political weapon and political advantage.

Egbema Youth is poise to inform our national leaders (Ijaws leaders) not to accept the Vice Chairman in the council anymore.

“The Ijaws are peace loving people, that is the primary reason the Egbema Ijaws in Warri North remain silence and keep on smiling in pain and agony even under political, educational, economic and social deprivation and humiliation.

“The Egbema people need redress of the educational, social and political embargo in the Local Government Area and as such the state and Federal Government should take note and intervene in these worries.

“It is imperative for those aspiring for political positions to go to the remote villages in order to know the basic and alarming problems these set of citizens are prone to in our kingdom.”