Some opposition governorship
candidates for the November 18th election in Anambra State have condemned the
pulling down of their campaign billboards by people suspected to be agents of
the state government.
The peoples Democratic party
candidate, Mr Oseloka Obaze on Thursday in Awka told journalists that he was
reliably informed that Obiano instructed the Anambra State Signage and
Advertising Agency (ANSAA) to pull down billboards belonging to political
opponents.
He said, “It is painful that
after paying the required fee to ANSAA, the state government still directed
them to pull down our billboards in Awka, Onitsha and other locations’’, Obaze
said.
He said that his supporters had
brought reports of numerous destruction of PDP billboards and his campaign posters
by the officials of state Signage agency who move around with official vehicles
with the inscription, “Willie is working’’ and accompanied by security officers
to damage billboards belonging to his party.
According to Obaze, “On Sept. 27
I paid the agency with receipt No: 0003951 and in spite the proof of payment,
government choose to damage the billboards they collected money for.’’
Also, Dr. Chira Obiora, the
Director-General of the Campaign Organisation, Mr Godwin Ezeemo, the guber
candidate of Progressive People’s Alliance (PPA) also lamented that PPA
candidate’s was also being destroyed by persons suspected to be supporters of
Obiano.
“We have been recording this
problem of our billboards being destroyed by government officials in spite
collecting monies from us and the problem is getting more intense as we close
in on the Nov.18 election date”, he said.
Meanwhile, Mr Jude Emecheta, the
Managing Director of Anambra State Signage and Advertisement Agency, the
chairman of the agency said the reason for the poster fee was for the clean-up
of defaced environment after the elections.
He denied that the agency was
responsible for the destruction of billboards, saying that only candidates
whondefaulted in payment have had their billboards removed.
“Our outdoor Advertising workers
are officially saddled with the duties of pulling down any billboard that is
indebted to the agency.
“In order not to be seen to be
supporting the government in power, we reduced the signage fee from 9
million naira to N1million in each zone’’, he said.
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