By Aneima Umoh

Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, stakeholders and leaders from the three zones that make up the council have described the convention held at Okrika, Rivers State, as a Kangaroo gathering, declaring it null and void.

Addressing newsmen in  Bomadi, Delta State , Jones Waribo from  Eastern zone, Ebiakpo Akpoebi, Central zone and Pius Opoku, Western zone, said an individual, no matter his position, cannot unilaterally convoke  a convention of IYC.

They said that out of the 10-man national executive council, NEC, of IYC, the national president and the spokesman cannot convoke a convention to produce an electoral committee.