2023: Ogun police warn politicians to stop covering car number plates with political stickers

Bankole Taiwo, Abeokuta

The Ogun State Commissioner for Police, Lanre Bankole has ordered all the Area Commanders and Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) to begin clamp down on politicians covering their car number plates with stickers of their political parties.

As way of promoting their various political parties and candidates ahead of next year general elections, many members of public are usually in the habit of covering their car number plates with stickers of their political parties or even candidates.

The police however in a statement by the its Spokesman in the state, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi on Tuesday, said this practice is inconsistent with the best practices all over the world, and it’s not going to be tolerated in Ogun State.

The police disclosed further that every vehicle needs to be identified with its number plate, and for anybody to cover such number plates means that the person is having a criminal intention.

The Command said, “it is hereby using this medium to warn those involved in this practice to desist from it henceforth, as standing order has been given to Area Commanders and DPOs to clamp down on such violators.

“There is nowhere in the road traffic act, where the sticker of political party or any other sticker is allowed to be used in place of number plates. Therefore, anybody caught in such act will be dealt with in accordance with the law. To be warned is to be armed.