Ghana Orders the Removal Nigerian Presidential Candidates’ Campaign Billboard in Accra

According to reports, the national security agency of Ghana gave an order that the campaign billboards of two Nigerian presidential candidates erected in Accra, Ghana’s capital be pulled down.

This was as a result of fears expressed by some Ghanians that their country could be drawn indirectly into the politics of Nigeria, with security implications, and of course with reign of the Boko Haram insurgency.
According to GhanaWeb, a security expert at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, Dr. Kwesi Annin, had indicated that Ghana had been saved from a possible attack by the terrorist group, Boko Haram, by pulling down the billboards put up in some parts of Accra, and was quoted to have said:

“I think it is critical that the National Security and Accra Metropolitan Assembly have listened to the concerns and voices raised by ordinary citizens that these billboards and some level of active political engagement might pose potential threat in the future.”

Annin stated further that the removal of the billboards should not only be about Boko Haram, but also about whether or not laws governing the country permit foreign political entities to campaign in Ghana.
Also, an international relations expert, Dr. Vladmir Antwi Danso, said that by bringing down the billboard, Ghana had been saved from severing future relations with Nigeria.

“What if after the elections the scales change, then the relationship between our country and Nigeria will also have some hiccups,”

Do you think it was wrong for Ghana to have pulled down the billboard, after all what’s their own with our own election???