Ogun PDP and State Signage Board at Loggerhead Over Billboards Removal
Ogun State Peoples Democratic party (PDP) and Ogun State Signage and Advertising Agency (OGSAA) are at loggerheads over the spate of removal of the campaign material, including billboards of political parties across the state.
The PDP accused the agency of using hoodlums to destroy its campaign banners, posters and others, across the state.
The party’s state spokesman, Asiwaju Akinloye Bankole in a statement said, the spate of destruction of PDP’S campaign material has been more worrisome in the past few days.
According to him, it is worrisome that the agency which was set up with the tax payer fund was being selective in its treatment of application of extant rules that regulate political advertising.
Akinloye lists areas where The PDP campaign materials were mostly destroyed as Sango Ota, Agbara, Ifo, Ewekoro, Iperu, Sagamu and Ado Odo, as well as other parts of the state.
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The PDP spokesman however noted that, while the campaign material of the PDP and other opposition parties were being destroyed by the agency, those of the All Progressive Congress (APC) were not touched.
Meanwhile, the manager of Ogun State Signage and Advertising Agency (OGSAA), Chief Fola Onifade has confirmed that, those who removed some of the campaign materials, including billboards are the agency’s officials and not hoodlums.
Onifade speaking to a Rockcity FM correspondent, Tobi Ojeleye said, the PDP billboards were not removed in Kuto, Ita Oshin, Abiola Way, as well as the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) billboards because they followed the due process in erecting them.
The manager explained that a warning had been issued to parties that, they should engage the services of advert agencies that are not owing the agency, for the erection of their campaign material.
He cited section 26 of the Ogun State Signage and Advertising Agency (OGSAA) act which stipulates the fees that must be paid by advertising agencies before they could erect billboards in the state.
