Politics
AS the presidential and national assembly election campaigns officially begins on August 19, Edwin Uhara, a Pan Africanist and United Nations-trained negotiator, has called on politicians to observe decorum in their political utterances in order not to overheat the polity.
Realnews reports that the advice is timely as the governorship and State Assembly campaigns will also begin September 9.
Uhara gave the advice in a statement released to newsmen in Enugu on Tuesday, noting that the fragile peace in the country could not withstand another nerve-racking political communication that does not have the best interest of the nation at heart.
He urged political parties and their candidates to always remember that there would be another election after this very one and never allow themselves to be used as agent provocateurs or display tendencies capable of fracturing the glue that hold us together as a nation.
He added that we don’t have APC Nigerians, ADC Nigerians or NDC Nigerians but one indivisible Nigeria under God with shared values, ideals and aspirations.
According to him, “Though these values can be expressed in different ideological beliefs which gave impetus to multiparty democracy but the end goal is to build a better, just and equitable Nigeria where no one is oppressed.
“So the question is not whether we love this country because that is never in doubt, but what is at stake in this contest is the best possible ways and faster means of unlocking the enduring promise of our founders when the British Union Jack was lowered for the Green White Green Flag on our soil.”
He said that “our political communications should focus more on the vision and the mission of parties and their candidates and not on divisive rhetorics or unnecessary muckrakings.
“In other words, we should think like statesmen and women who thinks about the next generation but act like politicians who thinks about the next election.”
A.I
Aug. 19, 2026
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