Outraged ADC Guber Aspirant Cries Foul Over Overnight Hijack of Massive Campaign Board Ahead of Oyo 2027

The political temperature in Oyo State has taken a sharp, volatile leap upward as the African Democratic Congress (ADC) officially declared war against what it describes as “political fascism” following the mysterious overnight replacement of its frontline gubernatorial campaign billboard in the heart of Ibadan.

The brewing crisis centers around Barrister Niyi Aborisade, a leading legal practitioner and prominent ADC gubernatorial aspirant for the highly anticipated Oyo 2027 election. The Aborisade campaign team woke up to a shocking discovery at the ultra-busy Challenge Junction—a premier advertising flashpoint in Ibadan. Their massive, newly installed campaign billboard, which had been unveiled to project the candidate’s structural blueprint to commuters, had been completely stripped down. In its place stood a shiny new banner belonging to an opposing political movement.

What makes the incident an administrative scandal is the campaign’s insistence that they complied with every letter of the law. According to internal financial logs, the ADC mobilization team had fully processed, cleared, and obtained formal approval receipts from the Oyo State Signage and Advertisement Agency (OYSAA) before mounting the structural framework. The sudden, unnotified replacement has sparked deep fears that state apparatuses are being quietly weaponized to suppress alternative voices well before the official 2027 campaign windows swing open.

Addressing a rowdy gathering of party faithful and media correspondents at the party’s state secretariat, a furious Aborisade did not hold back his words, labeling the act a crude attempt to muzzle the opposition.

“What we witnessed at Challenge Junction is not just an attack on my campaign; it is a direct assault on the democratic right of every Oyo citizen to choose,” Barrister Niyi Aborisade stated揣 emphatically. “We went through the proper channels, paid every single kobo demanded by the state signage agency, and secured our legal right to that space. To wake up and see our hard work ripped down and replaced by an opposing banner is pure desperation. If they are this terrified of a billboard in 2026, it shows they know their time in governance is up.”

表达 standing firmly shoulder-to-shoulder with the candidate, the Oyo State ADC Chairman, Yinka Olona, blasted the regulatory oversight and issued a strict 48-hour ultimatum to OYSAA and the state ministry to either return the original billboard or face severe institutional consequences. Olona warned that the new-look ADC—which is currently driving a massive membership registration and revalidation sweep across all senatorial districts—will not sit idly by while its operational visibility is erased from the metropolis.

The billboard showdown highlights the rapid fracturing of the political peace in the state. With major opposition forces already holding high-level alignment talks to counter the ruling party’s structure and heavyweights like the APC’s Senator Sharafadeen Alli mapping out their own networks, every inch of public space in Ibadan has become prime real estate. If the signage regulators fail to resolve the dispute amicably, the ADC has threatened to take the fight directly to the state high court, setting up a legal battle that could redefine the rules of engagement for public advertising in the long build-up to the 2027 ballot box.