A few months before the 2023 general election, Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi banned political party street campaigns.
Additionally, he threatened to close down the offices of defaulters’ party secretaries.
Additionally, Umahi outlawed all political parties in the state from sticking posters to the state’s vital infrastructure, such as its electric poles, concrete medians, roads, and flyover bridges.
The governor threatened to repress political parties, including his own All Progressives Congress (APC), that covered the infrastructure with posters in a statement signed and distributed to reporters in Abakaliki by Mr. Uchenna Orji, Commissioner of Information and State Orientation.
“The Governor has banned all street campaigns and directed all Local Government Area Chairmen, to process all the applications of any Political Party including APC that wants to use the public facilities for their campaigns,” he stated.
However, Umahi issued a directive to all political parties, including the APC, ordering them to remove all of the posters that were already strewn across the state’s vital infrastructure immediately.
“The Governor has decided to pardon all other political parties and appeal to them to remove all of their posters from all of the critical infrastructure before December 31, 2022 and cease immediately from defacing the state facilities or face similar penalty,” he said.
