Mrs. Ijedi Iyoha. rpa |
The
Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria, APCON has reacted to an
allegation that its clamp down on some campaign billboards and posters of some
political parties were targeted at opposition parties to favour the ruling
party.
Reacting
to a recent report aired on the African Independent Television (AIT) network,
the Acting Registrar of the Council, Mrs Ijedi Iyoha, vehemently denied the insinuation
of partisanship in the conduct of its enforcements.
She
stated that all the billboards and posters blanked out did not meet the
pre-exposure vetting requirements of the Council, and not because they belonged
to the opposition parties. She stressed that the boards on which enforcements
were carried out cut across parties.
For
the avoidance of doubt, she added that APCON requires political parties and
their candidates to forward their advertisements for pre-exposure vetting. Mrs
Iyoha emphasised that political advertisements were being vetted to promote
sanity and peace of the democratic process.
She
added further that ahead of the campaigns, the Council had held series of
stakeholder enlightenment on political advertising and sent out notices to
parties believing that they would comply with the law.
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