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February 10, 2015 by Kamarudeen Ogundele, Ado Ekiti 2 Comments

The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has expressed concerns over alleged directive by Governor Ayodele Fayose banning all its fully paid adverts and jingles on state-owned radio and television stations.

In a statement in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday, the state APC Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun,described the action as a bastardisation of media professional ethic and abuse of contract agreement between the stations and their clients.

Olatubosun criticised the governors aide on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka,for allegedly turning the stations into a personal property of his boss.

The stations have become a laboratory for manufacturing falsehoods against high ranking government officials in the Judiciary and Legislature perceived to be against Fayoses administration.

The stations in one of their news bulletins in November 2014 accused the Chief Judge, Mr. Justice Ayodeji Daramola, of collecting N200m bribe from APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to influence the judge sitting on Fayoses eligibility case to rule against him.

About the same time, allegation that the 19 APC members of the House of Assembly demanded N135m from the governor was also broadcast on the stations. All these were without evidence.

However, Olayinka in his reactiondenied the claim saying adverts and jingles of the APC and its candidates were being used on the state broadcasting stations.

The allegation is not true. We have been using their adverts and jingles inasmuch as they are ready to pay the rate.

Even as of this morning (Tuesday), if you listened to the stations, we still carried the adverts and jingles of the APC candidates, he said.

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