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Posters bearing the image of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, which had flooded the busy Airport Expressway and other locations in Abuja amid debate over premature campaigning ahead of the 2027 general elections, have been removed.

Daily Trust observed that the campaign-style posters, which initially dotted the stretch from the City Gate to the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport and other strategic locations, were no longer visible as of this week. Instead, spaces previously occupied by the president’s images have been taken over by commercial advertisements and posters announcing religious programmes.
The posters appeared several months ago, triggering public debate and criticism, with many Nigerians, civil society organisations and electoral observers questioning their timing and legality.

A visit by Daily Trust along the Airport Road this week showed a clear absence of the president’s posters from the City Gate through Lugbe and Gosa corridors down to the airport. Billboards and lamp posts that once carried the images now display adverts for telecommunications companies, real estate firms and upcoming religious programmes.

“I don’t know who removed them, but I saw some people taking them down in the night , like normal workers. They were not wearing any political shirts,” he said.

nairalandankrah:
Posters bearing the image of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, which had flooded the busy Airport Expressway and other locations in Abuja amid debate over premature campaigning ahead of the 2027 general elections, have been removed.

Daily Trust observed that the campaign-style posters, which initially dotted the stretch from the City Gate to the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport and other strategic locations, were no longer visible as of this week. Instead, spaces previously occupied by the president’s images have been taken over by commercial advertisements and posters announcing religious programmes.
The posters appeared several months ago, triggering public debate and criticism, with many Nigerians, civil society organisations and electoral observers questioning their timing and legality.

A visit by Daily Trust along the Airport Road this week showed a clear absence of the president’s posters from the City Gate through Lugbe and Gosa corridors down to the airport. Billboards and lamp posts that once carried the images now display adverts for telecommunications companies, real estate firms and upcoming religious programmes.

“I don’t know who removed them, but I saw some people taking them down in the night , like normal workers. They were not wearing any political shirts,” he said.

https://dailytrust.com/2027-tinubu-posters-disappear-from-abuja-roads/?noamp=available

ebukal67x:
Good to see some moderation on the FG's part.

fuckingAyaya:
If you think Tinubu just removed the campaign posters because he wants to remove it then you must be a joke, the order came directly from American embassy that he should yank them off and face governance, Donald Trump is very angry with him. How can your country be a slaughter den where citizens are unalived and kidnapped daily and you have campaign posters of you in the capital city, he folded and took removed all of them. Tinubu wey don buy campaign vehicles both SUV's and buses na him go comot poster lol.

iwaeda:
Despite covering everywhere with posters in Lagos in 2023, he lost woefully despite rigging. 2027 will be landmark, door to door put on third mainland bridge banners too.

iwaeda:
Despite covering everywhere with posters in Lagos in 2023, he lost woefully despite rigging. 2027 will be landmark, door to door put on third mainland bridge banners too.

chipet67:
I observe Tinubu is the first president with many do-before-thinking acts. Mr. strategists spent over twenty years waiting for his turn, is he telling us he learnt nothing while waiting?