Following the order of the Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello that all campaign billboards erected across the state in the build up to the last governorship election should be dismantled forthwith, the main opposition party in the State, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has threatened legal action.
\nOur correspondent gathered that, Governor Bello in a statement yesterday through his Chief Press Secretary, Onogwu Mohammed directed that all campaign stickers, handbills and posters embossed on vehicles, tricycles and motorbikes should be removed henceforth.
\nThe statement added that, campaign billboards erected or placed in offices and other public institutions in the state should be removed as well.
\nThose using campaign handbills and other political insignia as their plate numbers according to the statement were also to remove them forthwith.
\nThe statement concluded that, \u201cthe directive takes effect from today, Thursday February 6, 2020 and warned that anyone found with campaign or election related materials after this announcement would face the law\u201d.
\nReacting to this directive, the Director Research and Documentation, People\u2019s Democratic Party Achadu Dickson, said the Governor had no right to order for the dismantling of other party\u2019s billboard.
\nDickson pointed out that the election in Kogi State is not yet over until after the Supreme Court judgement.
\nThe opposition party expressed confidence that it will reclaim its victory as freely given to the PDP in the November 16, Governorship election.
\n\u201cEnough of humiliation and harassment of other parties by APC led government in Kogi State because the tatatatata episode is still lingering in people\u2019s mind,\u201d the party stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Following the order of the Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello that all campaign billboards erected across the state in the build up to the last governorship election should be dismantled forthwith, the main opposition party in the State, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has threatened legal action. Our correspondent gathered that, Governor Bello in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/206724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}