2023: Umahi forbids political parties in Ebonyi from holding street campaigns

A few months before the 2023 general election, Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi outlawed political party street campaigns.
Additionally, he threatened to close down the offices of defaulters’ party secretaries.

Umahi also made it illegal for any political party in the state to put up posters on things like power poles, concrete medians, roads, and flyover bridges that are important to the state’s infrastructure.

The governor vowed to repress political parties, including his own All Progressives Congress (APC), that covered the infrastructure with posters in a statement signed and sent to reporters in Abakaliki by Mr. Uchenna Orji, Commissioner of Information and State Orientation.

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According to him, “The Governor has banned all street campaigns and asked all local government area chairmen to process all applications of any political party, including APC, that wants to use the public facilities for their campaigns.”

But Umahi told all political parties, including the APC, to take down all of the campaign posters that were already up on the state’s important infrastructure right away.

He stated: “The Governor has chosen 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 vandalising state facilities or face similar punishment as the APC, Ebonyi State chapter.