APC Council Chairman Arrested Over Destruction Of PDP Billboard

Chairman of Oyo West Local Government Area of Oyo State, Soji Ojo-Awo has been arrested by Security operatives in connection with  the pulling down of the billboard of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Teslim Folarin, which was erected in front of the local government secretariat.

According to The Nation, the arrest was carried out yesterday January 5, after PDP members complained to the police and the Department of State Security (DSS) in Ibadan, the state capital about the pulling down of the billboard.

The chairman was said to have been summoned by the agencies where he wrote statements and was detained.
Soji Ojo-Awo said it was wrong for the opposition to erect a billboard at the entrance of the council secretariat at Ojongbondu. He however denied the allegations that he destroyed the billboard in question.

The situation would have gone out of hand but for the timely intervention of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Olayiwola Adeyemi, who  saved the situation from degenerating as supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) were moblising for what they referred to as “arbitrary use of security agencies by the PDP to harass, intimidate and victimise the progressives”.

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