Ebonyi Guber: APGA Governorship Candidate Prof Odoh, raises alarm over alleged destruction of  campaign Bill Boards of opposition

…insists campaigns must be issue based

By Clement Nnachi (abakaliki)

The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Governorship Candidate in Ebonyi State Professor Benard Odoh, has raised alarm over alleged attack on opposition Bill Boards by agents of the State Government.

Professor Odoh made the assertion in a statement issued in Abakaliki titled

“Continuous attacks on opposition parties in Ebonyi State by paid desperate political thugs”

He urged Candidates of various Political parties to focus on issues and not campaign materials and individuals.

According to the Statement, “Series of events in the last couple of days in Ebonyi State have left sour tastes in the mouth of many Nigerians who have followed with daze, the limitless intimidations, harassments and attacks on opposition elements”

The statement opined, “Ebonyians woke up today Monday, August 22 2023 to discover that billboards belonging Professor Benard Ifeanyi Odoh and that of his Deputy, Dr Nkata Chukwu in Abakaliki and some other parts of the State, have been removed in the locations where they had been strategically placed”

“We would sadly recall that the last couple of days have witnessed increased attacks on opposition elements and indeed, all those whom the State government considers ‘potential threats’”

The Statement condemned the purported raid of the venue of Women’s August meeting by suspected members of Ebubeagu Security Outfits.

“Just last weekend, the media was again awash with reports alleging an attack by men of the State’s Security outfit- Ebubeagu on Women’s August meeting which had been billed to take place at the People’s Club Abakaliki”

“It ridicules our beloved Ebonyi State that August meetings which have since become an annual ceremony that attract Guests from all over the world to the Igbo land and even beyond- a gathering that affords our mothers the privilege and opportunity to chart a way forward for communal progress”

“For us in the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA),  who are truly and ideologically progressives in the real sense of the word, we had since set out for our consultations in June and even in our numerous media appearances maintained a very robust and healthy engagement with both the stakeholders of different political Parties and the Ebonyi electorates”

“Recall that when I paid a consultative visit to the All Progressive Congress (APC) Hon Ogbonna Nwifuru, I had stated that part of the aim of my visit was for us to synergize to make the 2023 elections in Ebonyi issues-based campaigns.

The Statement request the authorities of the Nigerian Police Force, Ebonyi State Command,  to immediately commence investigations, arrest and prosecute those suspected to be behind the act.