The United Progressive Party (UPP) has accused Anambra governor, Chief Willie Obiano of taking the people of the state for a ride for imposing a payment of N9million per governorship aspirant for the pasting of campaign posters around the three senatorial zones of the state.
The Anambra Signage and Advertisement Agency(ANSAA) had two months ago announced that all aspirants to the Anambra governorship position will pay N3million for each of the three senatorial zones before pasting posters.
The money ANSAA managing Director, Jude Emecheta said would be used by the agency to clear up the mess generated by the posters after the election.
But UPP in a press statement signed by its state publicity secretary, Uche Amaku which was made available to journalists in Awka yesterday said the law was not only malicious but showed lack of respect for the people of the state.
The release by UPP stated, “Apart from levying that is obviously malicious and ill intended, the governor and his faction of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) have continued to erect giant billboards at every corner of the state, thereby creating the false impression that there is no electoral competition in the state.
“While we condemn these obvious excesses of Governor Obiano, we wish to assure NdiAnambra that UPP has resolved to use Governor Obiano’s severance allowance to clear the deadly obstruction he erected along the Awka-Onitsha expressway in the name of flyovers.”
Recall that the duo of Mr Goddy Ezeemo of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) and Hon Tony Nwoye of the All Progressives Congress(APC) both governorship aspirants, have dragged the state government to court over the law.
Ezeemo, a front-line aspirant argued that the law was self serving, and meant to shut out other aspirants, except the state governor from campaigning for the position.
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