Edo Gov: Akpata Accuses PDP Agents Of Destroying His Campaign Billboards
The Edo State Labour Party governorship candidate, Olumide Akpata, has accused supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of destroying his campaign billboards.
Briefing Newsmen in Benin on Friday, Akpata said the action was a desperate attempt to silence his party’s message of hope and positive change for the state.
He alleged that the party has experienced different attempts at undermining its campaigns by saboteurs.
“Over the past few days, we have witnessed a coordinated, premeditated, and insidious assault on our constitutionally guaranteed rights to free speech, political expression, and the fundamental tenets of democracy itself,” Akpata said.
He cited cases of threats, actual pulling down of the party’s billboards and listed the affected local government areas to include Ovia North east, Egor, Oredo and Ikpoba Okha, adding that the party has received threats that the days of its billboard at the Ramat Park are numbered.
“In Oredo Local Government Area, two of my billboards were viciously vandalised, defaced, and ultimately torn down, with explicit threats of more removals to come.
Akpata disclosed that, just as no warning was given prior to the removal, no reason was provided after the pulling down of billboard, also maintained that the party had paid the required fees to accredited service providers for the billboards.
