Billboard Permit: You Are Plotting To Cripple Opposition, PDP Tells Alia

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Benue State Chapter, has said the directive issued by the Benue State Government threatening to commence the removal of billboards, posters across the state from October 20, 2026 was a plot by governor Hyacinth Alia to cripple the opposition campaigns ahead of the 2027 governorship election.
In a statement issued by PDP State Publicity Secretary, Bright Yima Antyo, the party warned that any selective removal of opposition campaign materials, “under the guise of enforcement will be interpreted as a direct attack on democratic freedoms and a dangerous abuse of state institutions for partisan purposes”
The statement called on civil society organization...