The All Progressives Congress has warned the National Publicity Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party, Mr. Olisa Metuh, to guard his utterances and learn to show some decorum in his public statements.
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said Metuh’s resort to abusive words could send a wrong message to the younger generation and others who look to politicians for guidance.
The statement read in part, “Mr. Metuh, being the spokesman, first for a ruling party and now for the main opposition puts you on the rarefied level of being a role model and a pacesetter. You denigrate your office and your party when you use that platform to spew out hate and abusive words.
‘’You might choose to be bombastic, sharply critical and even aggressive in your statements, but you do not have to resort to the use of crude language like calling your fellow spokesman a ‘renowned liar’, ‘a master liar’ or a ‘shameless veteran’ to make your point.”
The APC urged the PDP spokesman to always focus on issues when issuing statements rather than resorting to personality attacks.
It added, “Apart from distracting from the issues at stake, those words reflect more on your personality than on the man you have chosen to skewer, and the vulgarity is stomach-churning.”
The APC said every statement being issued today will become a reference material in the weeks, months and years ahead, hence the need to keep them decent, polished and dignifying, even when they are hard-hitting.
The party said it had chosen to caution Metuh rather than reply him in kind, hoping he will see the reason for him not to continue on the path of profanity.
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