PDP’s Selective Outrage Cannot Erase Its Record Of Political Intolerance In Abia – By Pastor Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke
PDP’S SELECTIVE OUTRAGE CANNOT ERASE ITS RECORD OF POLITICAL INTOLERANCE IN ABIA The press release issued by the Abia State Peoples Democratic Party over the campaign advertising permit fees announced by the Abia State Structures for Signage and Advertising Agency is long on inflammatory language but remarkably short on historical honesty, sound legal interpretation and institutional memory. The PDP describes the policy as “extortion,” “oppression,” “political exclusion” and an attack on democracy. Yet this is the same political establishment under whose government Dr Alex Otti’s campaign reportedly paid the prescribed ₦10 million signage fee, complied with the relevant advertising requirements…
