Former vice president, Atiku
Abubakar, has condemned what he described as personal attacks by President
Muhammadu Buhari’s supporters and the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Atiku said they were conveying
hate speeches and dividing the nation by their utterances.
Segun Showunmi, spokesman for the
Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCO) conveyed the feelings of the
Wazirin Adamawa in a statement on Tuesday.
He said: “We need to restate as
directed by His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the PDP
that the 2019 election should be issue based, devoid of slandering and name
calling.
“We hold the view that unguarded
narrative hurts the country and further divides us as a people.
“Some of the consequences of
previous mismanaged campaign efforts is perhaps the reason why there is little
or no internal cohesion with its attendant security challenges.
“Elections comes every four years
in our country and if great effort is not taken, we could hurt the country and
its people needlessly and invariably our democracy.
“We have to sign up to these
ideals, we can campaign without recourse to hate speech, libel, lies, undue
criminalization of people and each other.
“On our part we have signed up to
running an issue-based campaign and if it is not too hard for the Muhammad
Buhari administration and the APC to understand, we call on you to do the same.
“There is greater value in doing
so. Nigeria is the most populous black nation on earth and we owe it to
ourselves and the black race to be above board.
*We are trying to present our
idea on how the country should be led and not interested in anything else. And
by so doing, set Nigeria and its people on the path of working again.”
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