Following the demolition carried out on the veteran musician, Yinka Joel Ayefele Music House (Fresh FM) by the Oyo State Government, the bloggers under the aegis of Guild of Bloggers, Nigeria (GBN) has strongly condemned the destructive move.
GBN in a statement made available to journalists on Sunday, lamented the chronic intolerance and vindictiveness of the government of the day towards any individual or private organization perceived to be against the government interest.
The Group said the development was nothing but a sheer antic by Senator Abiola Ajimobi’s administration to gag the media against reporting its series of massive failures in dissonance to the manifesto sold to the electorate in its reelection bid in 2015 as the next electioneering is approaching to assess his 8 years governorship.
He further stressed that the ongoing systematic clampdown on the media organizations and its practitioners in the state by the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration was an irrefutable testimony to the incurable despotic conduct of its supremo who does pride himself as a die hard democrat.
The group explained that the outgoing administration as part of the ploys to muzzle journalists from examining and exposing its series of anti-people policies and programmes has resorted to using state instruments to witchhunt owners of private radio stations to compromise the ethics and standard of their profession.
The group also emphatically described the demolition exercise on the management of the Ibadan wave making FM radio as a gimmick to pocket its management in doing his biddings in misleading the general public on the state of affairs of the state as the season of electoral propagandas sets in.
The group however called on the APC leaders in the country and accomplished indigenes of Ibadan to caution the governor from killing the growing entrepreneurial fortunes brought in by the illustrious natives and non-indigenes who found the city favourable to be settled and invested in and if he is to demolish by all standard, compensation should be the priority to the handicapped musician.
GBN in conclusion sympathize with the troubled Fresh FM management on the irreparable damage caused by the Ajimobi’s administration and also collaborate with various relevant authorities in the broadcasting organizations in the country possibly beyond to deploy legal instruments to challenge the proposed annihilation of its edifice in court.
