The New Nigeria Folks’s Get together, NNPP, Ondo State, has referred to as on safety operatives to arrest and prosecute individuals discovered destroying its aspirants billboards throughout the state.
The Ondo State Publicity Secretary of NNPP, Wasiu Sanusi, stated on Thursday in Akure that there was an pressing have to cease the development to forestall it from degenerating right into a disaster.
Sanusi stated {that a} faceless group had been destroying the billboards of its governorship aspirants to forestall it from unseating the ruling social gathering within the state.
The Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee, INEC, had slated the off-cycle governorship elections in Ondo State on November 16, 2024.
The fee’s Spokesperson, Sam Olumekun, stated the tenure of the Governor of Ondo State will finish on February 23, 2025.
“As offered in Part 178 (2) of the Structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended), election into the stated workplace shall be held not sooner than 150 days and never later than 30 days earlier than the expiration of the tenure of the final holder of the workplace,” INEC stated.
Ondo State is among the many eight Nigerian states whose governorship elections are held outdoors the overall elections cycle as a result of outcomes of earlier litigations.
The others are Anambra, Osun, Edo, Ekiti, Bayelsa, Kogi and Imo states.
In accordance with INEC, the social gathering primaries are to be held from April 6 to April 27, 2024, whereas submitting the record of nominated candidates via the web portal will begin on April 29, 2024 and shut on Might 20, 2024.
Sanusi stated, “NNPP is the primary opposition social gathering in Ondo State, the destruction of social gathering aspirants’ billboards might degenerate right into a disaster. We enchantment to safety operatives to cease the development.”
He stated that NNPP wouldn’t have reacted to the event however realised that if the development was not contained, different social gathering trustworthy might do the identical, resulting in disruption of a peaceable election.
