Jonathan orders removal of campaign posters nationwide

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 a$$ociations 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.”