Unpaid Advert Debt: Journalists Plan Mass Protest Against APC

Journalists covering the All Progressives Congress (APC), have concluded plans to embark on a massive protest against the National Working Committee (NWC), led by Chief John-Odigie Oyegun from next week, over its refusal to pay various advertisements placed in media newspapers.

The debts running into over N30 Million, cut across various major national Newspapers covering the party.

The party recently generated more than N60 million from the sales of Nomination and Expression of Interest forms to aspirants vying for the party’s ticket for the Anambra guber poll.‎

It was gathered that eleven out of the twelve aspirants officially paid N5.5 million for the forms, while the only woman aspirant got the form free according to the APC constitution.

Some of the adverts placed in the newspapers were said to have taken more than two years without payment by the ruling party.

The affected journalists, who said they are on the verge of losing their jobs as a result of threats from their offices, expressed frustration confronting them as a result of the APC debt.

One of the journalists who revealed the plan to carry placards against the NWC next week, said they have to do this after several appeals had failed.

The journalists said that all the local and international media organizations will be invited to cover the protest.