Billboard Destruction: Delta PDP Calls For Calm, Asks Omo-Agege To Caution Supporters

The Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Campaign Council accused the opposition in the state of masterminding the destruction of the party’s billboards describing the action as disappointing coming after the recent peace accord with the All Progressives Congress, APC among other leading parties.

The campaign council in a statement issued by Dr Ifeanyi Osuoza especially called for restraint from PDP supporters as it charged the All Progressives Congress, APC and Social Democratic Party, SDP to hold their supporters.

The PDP while noting what it described as the viral video footage, depicting the deliberate, gory, primitive, wanton vandalization and destruction of our huge Atiku/Okowa Campaign billboards, by thugs and miscreants, along Udu Express junction near Warri, said:

“We have no doubts whatsoever, that these hardened thugs and recalcitrants, who, from the deftness and nimble dexterity of their expertise in climbing the billboards and clinically carrying out their nefarious actions, were definitely sponsored by the opposition with specific instructions to destroy only our billboards.

“There is a very clear indication that this crude, anti-democratic demonstration of unprovoked, unnecessary violence so close to the commencement of the 2023 general election, was perpetrated against the backdrop of the recent unbearable, strangulating economic hardship visited upon Nigerians by the wicked APC Federal Government, through the naira redesign/swap and suffocating fuel crises that has gripped the entire Nigeria nation by the jugular, in a suffocating choke hold.

“Lets us state categorically that no individual, group, or political party has a monopoly of violence, but as a responsible political party, we have embraced the truism that election is not war and there is no need to invoke the Code of Hammurabi in a contest which we are all participating as brothers, sisters, Deltans.

“We also wish to caution the opposition and sponsors of this violence, especially the Delta State All Progressives Congress, APC Governorship candidate, Senator Ovie Omo-agege, to caution those who may be masquerading as his thugs, to be more circumspect in their opposition plans as we approach the elections, and desist henceforth and forthwith, from even conceiving and perpetrating any further acts of destruction and violence on our party billboards and other symbols. This is a friendly advice.

“We have duly reported this matter to the law enforcement agencies, who were fortunately present at the Peace Accord signing ceremony, and we urge them to hold Senator Ovie Omo-Agege in particular, responsible for the wanton destruction perpetrated by those who may be acting as his thugs in Delta State and take swift and appropriate action to bring those found culpable for vandalising our billboards to book, in order to nip any further violence in the bud,” the PDP said in calling for calm following the destruction of the board allegedly by APC supporters.

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