‘Politics is expensive everywhere’ - Wike replies critics over high billboard cost in Abuja

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has said that authorities is costly anyplace successful the world.

Wike said this connected Thursday during his monthly media chat successful Port Harcourt, wherever helium defended the precocious outgo of placing adverts connected billboards arsenic the state prepares for the forthcoming wide elections successful 2027.

His defence comes amid the outcry by respective absorption parties implicit entree to connection media done which voters tin beryllium reached, arsenic they jostle for votes.

He argued that the outgo of governmental campaigns is precocious crossed the world, adding that nary enactment should spot the terms summation arsenic a deliberate targeted attack.

“Politics is costly each implicit the world,” Wike noted that governmental parties tin usage their societal media to run since they person platforms there.

Recall that absorption parties had alleged that portion they are incapable to spend the precocious terms tags of billboards, those of the All Progressives Congress, APC, person dominated large cities crossed the country.

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