Operatives of Enugu Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested an outdoor advertising executive over political advertisements that appeared in two billboards in Enugu, bearing the name and logo of the commission.

The two super 48 sheet billboards located at Otigba and Zik Avenue junctions, in Enugu, bore messages using the name of the EFCC to threaten the aspiration of some politicians in the state, in the build up to the 2023 general elections.

On the billboards bore messages such as, “2023: Enugu Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), learn from 2007 election” as well as “EFCC is coming with koboko on corrupt candidates.”

Officials of the commission stormed the locations of the two billboards at the weekend and dismantled them. Sources said the billboards might not be unconnected to a recent campaign, allegedly sponsored by a governorship aspirant to discredit some of his rivals, especially the top contenders.

Sponsors of the campaign had listed some governorship aspirants of the PDP in the state in the last few weeks, who are said to be under EFCC’s investigation and mounted campaigns on the social media against them.

They had gone to the point of warning Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and the PDP delegates in the state not to make the mistake of voting the alleged corrupt politicians during the primary, as such might amount to an exercise in futility.

MEANWHILE, EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, yesterday, said operatives have arrested Baron Nnamdi, the alleged designer, printer and owner of the billboards.

Nnamdi claimed a media aide to a former Enugu deputy governor, who is in the governorship race, contracted him. The suspect said he was paid N160, 000 for a one week campaign and that the aide supplied him with the messages, EFCC logo and pictures.

“The commission visited the two sites and pulled down the offensive advertisement,” Uwajaren noted. He warned politicians to play by the rules and refrain from dragging the EFCC “into the political fray.”