‘All Eyes On The Judiciary’ billboards not offensive — Atedo Peterside

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‘All Eyes On The Judiciary’ billboards not offensive — Atedo Peterside

The Founder of Stanbic IBTC and Anap Foundation, Atedo Peterside, on Friday, backed the “All Eyes on the Judiciary” phrase.

Peterside said the phrase should not be offensive to a ‘right-thinking person.’

Peterside on X, formerly Twitter, defended the phrase, saying, “For the record, methinks #AllEyesOnTheJudiciary is a neutral slogan that should ordinarily not offend a right-thinking & sincere person in a civilised society.

“I can understand someone rejecting a negative slogan like “Let us turn our noses up at the Judiciary. Enough said.”

Peterside’s stance came days after the Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria, disbanded its Advertising Standards Panel due to the debate stirred by the billboards.

The Director General of ARCON, Dr. Olalekan Fadolapo, in a statement on Tuesday, said the presented concepts had not received panel approval.

Fadolapo stated this made the council mandate the immediate removal of the material and imposition of penalties on the offenders.

“The Advertising Standards Panel of the Council also erred in the approval of one of the concepts as the advertisement failed the vetting guidelines on the following grounds,” Fadolapo added.

Recently, this expression has gained prominence by being displayed on billboards in Abuja amidst the proceedings of the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal.

This tribunal involves the challenge against President Bola Tinubu’s triumph, posed by Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP).

Tinubu emerged as the winner in the February 25 election with 8,794,726 votes, surpassing Abubakar’s 6,984,520 votes and Obi’s 6,101,533 votes.