President Goodluck Jonathan on
Thursday directed the Peoples
Democratic Party Presidential
Campaign Organisation and other
bodies that campaigned for his re-
election to start removing the
posters, billboards, banners, signs
and other campaign materials they
erected nationwide.
In a statement by his Special
Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr.
Reuben Abati, the President said
with the 2015 general elections
over, it was appropriate that steps
be taken to restore the
environment in Nigerian cities,
towns and villages to their pre-
election campaign state.
Jonathan urged Nigerians to put
the recent political campaigns
behind them and join hands with
the incoming administration in
working for a more united,
peaceful, stable and progressive
nation.
The statement partly read, “With
the 2015 presidential elections now
concluded and the country
preparing for the inauguration of a
new administration on May 29,
President Goodluck Jonathan
believes that it is appropriate that
steps be taken to restore the
environment in Nigerian cities,
towns and villages to their pre-
election campaign state.
“Accordingly, President Jonathan
directs that the PDP Presidential
Campaign Organisation and the
various associations that coalesced
into the Jonathan/Sambo Support
Group immediately begin the
process of removing the posters,
billboards, banners, signs and other
campaign materials in support of
his re-election bid which still adorn
the landscape in major cities across
the country.