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Aspirant to the office of 1st Vice President of the Ijaw National Congress (INC) in the March 7th, 2026 polls of the body and its outgoing Publicity Secretary, Chief (Engr) Ezonebi Oyakemeagbegha has said the number two position of the apex Ijaw sociocultural organization expected to emerge from the Western clans of the organization has been micro zoned by stakeholders of the INC from its Western zone to his clan, Tuomo.
Tuomo is a kingdom in the Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, just as the INC’S Western zone comprises Ijaws of Delta, Edo, and Ondo States.
The spokesman and Vice-Presidential hopeful, in an interview, declared that having served the Ijaw nation for about four years meritoriously as image maker of its apex body, stakeholders of the Western zone prevailed on him to run for a higher office where he could render higher services.
He noted that during the number of years he has served as Publicity Scribe of the INC, the organization’s voice has been heard world over, stressing that before the emergence of the outgoing national executive council of the body, it was in a comatose state.
Oyakemeagbegha said working in synergy, the outgoing leadership has made remarkable achievements, noting that before their tenure, non-Ijaw groups were on the verge of annexing Ijaw territories due to the absence of a map specifying Ijaw communities.
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He, however, stated that the plan to annex Ijaw territories by other ethnic nationalities was halted with the production of a map identifying Ijaw communities and territories by the outgoing national executive council.
According to him, he would be more committed to the growth and development of the Ijaw land more than ever before when elected into the current position he is vying for.
“Though it may not be constitutional, however, stakeholders from the Western zone of the INC met and micro-zoned the position of 1st Vice President in the forthcoming national elections to my clan, Tuomo.
“Stakeholders from the zone also, in their wisdom, after due consultations and considerations, called on me to contest for the position of the 1st Vice President, which is zoned to the Western zone because of my trajectory of meritorious service to the Ijaw nation as Publicity Secretary in the outgoing national executive council (NEC) of the INC”, he said.
