UPN accuses Amosun, APC supporters of destroying billboard

Unity Party of Nige­ria (UPN) in Ogun State yesterday ac­cused Governor Ibikunle Amosun and his All Progressives Congress (APC) supporters of alleged­ly destroying the billboard of its governorship candidate, Prince Rotimi Paseda in the Sagamu area of the state.

The UPN also alleged that the destroyed billboard of its governorship candidate, lo­cated in front of a filling station in Sagamu, had been replaced with that of Governor Amosun and his running mate, Chief Ye­tunde Onanuga.
Daily Sun gathered that the UPN governorship standard bearer’s campaign billboard was removed and replaced with that of Amosun and his running mate between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.
Addressing newsmen in Sagamu at the site of the bill­board, UPN Director of Com­munications and Strategy in the state, Chief Bola Omololu, alleged that the destruction of the billboard of the party’s gov­ernorship candidate was one of the strategies being adopted by the governor and the APC to intimidate and oppress the op­position parties.
Omololu wondered why the billboard should be destroyed and replaced with that of the governor when the necessary fee paid to the state agency in charge of signage had not lapsed.
He said the action of Amo­sun and his APC supporters had political undertone, adding that the matter had been report­ed to the police.
When contacted, state Pub­licity Secretary of the APC, Sola Lawal, referred Daily Sun to the state’s Signages and Ad­vertising Agency.
But the General Manager of OGSAA, Mr. Akinlabi Ban­dele, said the fee paid by the agency in charge of the site where the UPN candidate’s billboard was removed had lapsed since January 18.
Bandele said: “The agency that registered that site with us paid for only four weeks and it expired on January 18. We don’t really have any issue with them (UPN). It is only the out­door advertising agency that we deal with. They should talk to their agency to find out if they have paid.”