Abia State have sealed a campaign office associated with President Bola Tinubu, citing contraventions of local tax legislation, according to official notices posted at the location in Umuahia.
The sealed premises belongs to the Renewed Hope Partners (RHP), the local structure promoting the President’s agenda, which is championed in the South East by Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu.
The closure was executed by the state’s Ministry of Lands and Housing. A notice affixed to the property entrance explicitly stated the legal grounds for the action. The notice read that the property is “in contravention of Sections 41 and 100 of the Abia State Tax Law (Codification and Consolidation), Law No. 7 of 2020.”
The legal mandate further warned that “Any person… who attempts to unseal this building is in contravention of the Abia state tax law.”
An official of the RHP, who spoke on condition of anonymity, reported that the office was sealed without any prior warning. The action comes amid heightened political tensions between the ruling party at the federal level and the state government, led by Governor Alex Otti of the Labour Party.
