A South-South zonal officer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Chux Nwaebuni has urged aspirants into various positions in the forthcoming primaries to shun malicious and hate speeches, noting that there would always be life after politics.
Nwaebuni in an interview lamented the dangerous
trend in the electioneering process where some aspirants embark of smear campaigns of calumny rather than sell their manifestoes to the electorates. “This is very dangerous”, he stressed.
He explained that any seasoned politician with genuine intention to serve the people would channel his efforts towards wooing voters and show reasons why he deserves their votes; lamenting that dissipating energy and time on false propaganda, blackmails and hate speeches was the
bane of the country’s current political campaigns.
While advising against the dangerous trend of campaign of calumny, Nwaebuni noted that such trend was even more dangerous coming
from same political family who ought to be working as one united entity to ensure the victory of the party over others in the general elections.
The zonal officer pleaded with aspirants to shun the attitude of pulling down their fellow aspirants but should rather see themselves as
partners in progress whose vision and mission should center on advancing and improving the country and lives of her citizens.
Stressing the need for all to imbibe the spirit of sportsmanship,
Nwaebuni averred that in every elective contest, there would always be
one winner; others are not losers but partners in progress. When the
consultation and campaign is centered on agenda and ideologies without hates and blackmailing of anyone, others who did not emerge as flag bearers should be able to embrace the persons who emerged and work
together for the bigger victory ahead.
“But when much time is spent bickering, insulting and blackmailing,
embracing one another thereafter becomes more difficult and working for bigger victory becomes hard.
“I am appealing that as we move into the party primaries, aspirants and supporters should desist from mudslinging and approach the contest with the spirit of sportsmanship. Those who did not emerge flag bearers should embrace one another, see themselves as brave
giants. You can never be a push over in any political engagement”, he
pleaded.
