The Executive Chairman of Bomadi Local Government Council, Hon. Dagidi Rawlings Andaye, has denied allegations by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that he ordered the destruction of the party’s candidates’ billboards in the area.
In a statement issued Tuesday, June 2, 2026, by the New Media Office of the Executive Chairman, Andaye described the claim by Delta PDP Publicity Secretary, Chief Kingsley Akpos Oturubo, as “outrightly false, misleading and spurious.”
The council boss said he and his team are not the Delta State Signage and Advertisement Agency, DESSAA, which Governor Sheriff Oborevwori recently directed to fully implement laws regulating outdoor advertising across the state.
According to a government special announcement referenced in the release, the directive from the Secretary to the State Government, Dr. Kingsley Eze Emu, mandates DESSAA to enforce measures including Operation Tag Your Boards, submission of ARCON certificates, and site approvals within seven days.
The SSG warned that non-compliance would attract sanctions, citing the need to eliminate clustering of billboards and environmental hazards.
“From the above which is as clear as crystal and unambiguous, it is obvious that the allegation by the Delta State PDP chapter Publicity Secretary is a misplaced one,” the statement read.
Andaye said the claim that he was directed by the Governor to pull down posters and billboards of opposition parties is “not only spurious and laughable, but clearly an insult on the office and person of the Executive Governor.”
“For records purposes and the avoidance of doubt, the Executive Chairman of Bomadi Local Government Council, Hon. Dagidi Rawlings Andaye, clearly dissociates self and his team from any such act of pulling down posters and billboards of any candidate of any party,” the statement added.
The council chairman described it as “reprehensible and libelous” to label a Chief Security Officer of a local government as a “thug” or “street urchin” engaging in lawlessness.
He advised Delta PDP to “do due diligence check before rushing to the public space to malign law abiding public officers.”
