Tension is brewing in Ondo State after billboards supporting President Bola Tinubu’s re-election were torn down in parts of Akure, the state capital.
The Grassroots Movement for Tinubu (GMT), a support group within the All Progressives Congress (APC), raised the alarm, accusing unknown persons of deliberately targeting the signs. The incident comes amid a quiet political tussle between independent campaign groups rooting for Tinubu and Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa.
Just days earlier, GMT had publicly opposed Aiyedatiwa’s directive that all support groups must operate under a single platform called “Ondo for Tinubu 2027.” The latest act of vandalism appears to have deepened that rift.
In a statement, GMT’s Director of Media and Publicity, Oyewamide Ojo, condemned the removal of the billboards, which had been strategically placed on streetlights along the Airport Road–Oba-Ile corridor. “They were forcefully and cowardly taken down by faceless individuals,” Ojo said, describing the act as malicious.
According to him, the group sees the vandalism as “an assault on democracy, a slap in the face of free speech, and a deliberate attempt to erase the truth of the progress Nigeria is currently experiencing under Tinubu.”
