Nigeria’s Vice President Kashim Shettima has urged leaders,
aspirants, and supporters of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to
desist from destructive politics.
Shettima made the call in a statement on Wednesday, calling
on all and sundry to exercise restraint and maintain party unity as political
consultations for the 2027 general elections begin.
The Vice President, in the statement titled: “2027: Don’t
Pull Down the Roof”, likened the APC to a family that must not destroy its own
house over internal ambitions.
According to him, the political season comes with familiar
fever of democracy, stressing that consultations have begun across wards, local
governments, party offices and private homes.
“The political season is here again. We don’t have to pull
down the roof. We all should desist from destructive politics.
“Aspirants are making calls, elders are receiving visits,
supporters are counting delegates, and the marketplace of ambition is alive
once more.
“This is proof that our democracy still breathes. It is
evidence that power in our republic is still something to be negotiated,
contested, persuaded, and earned. But every season of politics also comes with
its temptations.
“It comes with the temptation to mistake disagreement for
betrayal, competition for enmity, preference for exclusion, and media
interpretation for truth,” the statement partly read.
By
TheTimes Nigeria
