by Damilola Jagun

Not the best of times for the Peoples Democratic Party- certainly not.

New Telegraph newspapers has petitioned the Peoples Democratic Party Chairman, Adamu Mu’azu, over unpaid advertisement debt.

The newspaper claims that the disbanded PDP Presidential Declaration Committee is yet to settle a N6.9m advertisement debt.

Consequently, the media organisation has threatened to institute a legal action against the PDP, if it doesn’t pay the debt within two weeks.

In a petition filed by Festus Okoye, the newspaper alleged that the committee headed by Senator Aniete Okon failed to settle advertisements bill it placed in several newspapers on December 24, 2014.

In the petition dated May 11, 2015, Okoye stated that his client, Ibrahim Musa, the Bureau Chief of New Telegraph newspaper in Kaduna State had on the instruction of Dr. Okey Ikechukwu, a member of the PDP Presidential Declaration Committee, placed centre spread advertisements in Daily Trust, Leadership, The Sun and Vanguard newspapers.

The petition read in part: “Our client has exercised sufficient restraint in relation to the payment for these advertisements and his integrity and the livelihood of some of his colleagues are at stake.

“We plead that you use your good offices to ensure that our client is paid to enable him to meet his own commitments to his colleagues and their newspaper medium. Our client has given us the mandate to use all legal and constitutional means to affirm the integrity of the contract but we feel that we should explore an amicable resolution of this matter.”