Our reporter/ The “All Eyes on the Judiciary” mantra, saying it should not be offensive to a right-thinking person, the Founder of Stanbic IBTC and Anap Foundation, Atedo Peterside said on Friday.
The phrase gained popularity in recent months, appearing on billboards around Abuja amid proceedings of the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal, where the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s Atiku Abubakar and Labour Party (LP)’s Peter Obi are challenging the victory of President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Following the declaration of Tinubu as the winner of the election by INEC and the litigation at tribunal by Obi and Atiku, the mantra “All Eyes on the Judiciary” gaining traction.
Peterside took to X, formerly Twitter, to make a case for the phrase, even as many members of the ruling APC and Tinubu’s supporters have condemned it.
“For the record, methinks #AllEyesOnTheJudiciary is a neutral slogan that should ordinarily not offend a right-thinking & sincere person in a civilised society,” Peterside wrote on Friday
I can understand someone rejecting a negative slogan like “Let us turn our noses up at the Judiciary”. Enough said”
Peterside’s argument comes days after the Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCON) dissolved its Advertising Standards Panel over the hotly debated billboards.
The Director General of ARCON, Dr Olalekan Fadolapo, in a statement on Tuesday, said the concepts exposed were not approved by the panel, saying the advertising council had directed that all the materials being exposed be brought down immediately and the violators sanctioned.
Following the destruction of the billboards by the federal government, many Nigerians have devised other creative means of propagating the message via t-shirts, vehicles and social media platforms.
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