Edo state governorship candidate of Labour Party, Olumide Akpata said his campaign team over the past few days, have witnessed a coordinated, premeditated,
and insidious assault on their constitutionally guaranteed rights to free speech, political expression, and the fundamental tenets of democracy itself by governor Godwin Obaseki.
“Billboards that I, as a law-abiding citizen and a gubernatorial candidate, legally paid for and erected across the length and breadth of Benin City have come under attack from the Local Government Areas, who are agents of the incumbent governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki.
“In Oredo Local Government Area, two of my billboards were viciously vandalised, defaced, and ultimately torn down, with explicit threats of more
removals to come”, he stated.
