{"id":146536,"date":"2025-06-20T12:22:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T11:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/?p=146536"},"modified":"2025-06-20T12:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T11:22:19","slug":"kaduna-youth-vandalize-tinubu-uba-sani-billboards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/?p=146536","title":{"rendered":"Kaduna youths vandalize Tinubu, Uba Sani billboards after presidential visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kaduna youths vandalize Tinubu, Uba Sani billboards after presidential visit<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Barely moments after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu concluded his official visit to Kaduna State, yesterday, Thursday, a group of angry youths were caught on camera vandalizing large billboards featuring the President and Governor Uba<\/p>\n<p>The viral footage, which surfaced online shortly after the President\u2019s departure, shows a group of young men in broad daylight ripping down banners erected to welcome Tinubu to the State. The defaced billboards bore prominent images of President Tinubu and Governor Uba Sani and had been strategically placed in key locations as part of the State\u2019s elaborate display for the visit.<\/p>\n<p>One of the clips, captioned \u201cPresident Tinubu hasn\u2019t even left Kaduna and the youth are already destroying every billboard with his and Uba Sani\u2019s faces on it,\u201d captures the intensity of the moment. The young men can be seen furiously tearing the posters from their mounts and discarding them onto the roadside.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses described the scene as tense and chaotic, with passersby watching in shock as the youths dismantled the political banners with precision and speed. Multiple billboards were reportedly targeted across parts of Kaduna, with no intervention from security forces at the time of filming.<\/p>\n<p>The act, widely interpreted as a symbolic rejection of both federal and state leadership, comes amid mounting frustration over insecurity, hardship, and perceived neglect in the northern region. Social media users have reacted sharply, with many citing the incident as evidence of growing political fatigue and disillusionment among the youth.<\/p>\n<p>As of press time, neither the Kaduna State Government nor the Presidency has issued an official statement regarding the vandalism<\/p>\n<p>(Discoverer Nigeria)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaduna youths vandalize Tinubu, Uba Sani billboards after presidential visit &nbsp; Barely moments after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu concluded his official visit to Kaduna State, yesterday, Thursday, a group of angry youths were caught on camera vandalizing large billboards featuring the President and Governor Uba The viral footage, which surfaced online shortly after the President\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":146537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1443,1441,1444,1442],"class_list":{"0":"post-146536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-others","8":"tag-billboards","9":"tag-kaduna-youth","10":"tag-presidential-visit","11":"tag-vandalize"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kaduna youths vandalize Tinubu, Uba Sani billboards after presidential visit - The Public Pulse<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The defaced billboards bore prominent images of President Tinubu and Governor Uba Sani and had been strategically placed in key locations as\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/?p=146536\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kaduna youths vandalize Tinubu, Uba Sani billboards after presidential visit - The Public Pulse\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The defaced billboards bore prominent images of President Tinubu and Governor Uba Sani and had been strategically placed in key locations as\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/?p=146536\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Public Pulse\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-20T11:22:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/thepublicpulse.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_20250619_223947.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"664\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Njoku G. 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