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Restrain Shettima From ‘Unguarded’ Comments on Peter Obi, LP Tells APC

  As the 2023 presidential campaigns continue to gain momentum, Labour Party (LP) has asked the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to rein in the … Continue reading Restrain Shettima From ‘Unguarded’ Comments on Peter Obi, LP Tells APC


Labour Party accused the APC Vice Presidential Candidate, Kashim Shettima of disregarding the National Peace Accord signed by both parties ahead of the 2023 elections. Twitter@KashimSM & @PeterObi
Labour Party accused the APC Vice Presidential Candidate, Kashim Shettima of disregarding the National Peace Accord signed by both parties ahead of the 2023 elections. Twitter@KashimSM & @PeterObi

 

As the 2023 presidential campaigns continue to gain momentum, Labour Party (LP) has asked the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to rein in the latter’s vice presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima over alleged verbal attacks on the former’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi.

“We have watched with dismay and disgust, the various unguarded insults and disparaging remarks passed on our Presidential Candidate and Other candidates, by the Vice Presidential Candidate of the APC, Mr Kassim Shettima,” the Director General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Doyin Okupe in a statement on Saturday.

According to the party, this is in spite of both political parties serving as signatories to the National Peace Accord supervised by the Chairman of the National Peace Committee, General Abdulsalami Abubakar and representing the bona fide Code of Conduct for all corporate and individual direct participants in the current electoral process.

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“In the Peace Accord signed in Abuja, it was expressly stated, that candidates will avoid the use of abusive and offensive language, throughout the campaigns,” the statement reads in part.

“It is therefore, very unfortunate and regretful, but not exactly surprising, that in flagrant disregard for the clauses and principles of this accord, the APC Vice Presidential Candidate, in particular, has continued, repeatedly, to play the court jester.

“At this juncture, the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Organisation will like to advise the APC to rein in and restrain its Vice Presidential candidate from further uncouth and unguarded language, against our candidate, and all other candidates in this race.

“It can be understood that he is still basking in the euphoria of having been nominated, to the exalted position of the Vice Presidential candidate of a party, which ordinarily could never have occurred, in an environment of strict adherence to best practices and high moral and character values, where due attention is paid to pedigree, personal records and known antecedents.”