The Federal Government has ordered the removal of “All Eyes on the Judiciary” billboards nationwide.
The government also disbanded the secretariat of the Advertising Standard Panel (ASP) over its approval of the advertisement.
The Director-General of the Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria, Dr. Olalekan Fadolepo, announced the removal of all the billboards in a statement on Tuesday.
According to him, the advertisement is inappropriate and is currently before the courts.
“The Advertising Standards Panel did not approve the exposed concepts; hence, the council has directed that all the exposed materials be brought down immediately and the violators sanctioned”, he said.
The “All Eyes on the Judiciary” advertisement comes amid anxiety as Nigerians await the judgement of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.
It will be remembered that the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, and the Labour Party’s Peter Obi, challenged President Bola Tinubu’s victory in the 2023 presidential election.
