Vice President Kashim Shettima has called on Political actors within the Progressives movement not to Pull Down the Roof as political activities heighten which comes with a familiar fever of democracy.
In a Statement personally signed by the Vice President, he calls for decorum across levels and officials, saying consultations have begun and aspirants are making calls, elders are receiving visitors, supporters courting delegates, and the marketplace of ambition is alive once more.
He describes the season as a proof that democracy still breathes with evidence that power is still something to be negotiated, contested, persuaded, and earned.
Vice President Shettima notes that it is a normal practice as every season of politics comes with its temptations to make mistake, disagreement for betrayal, competition for enmity, preference for exclusion, and media interpretation for truth.
As members of one political household with different aspirations, different loyalists, different zones of influence, different calculations, and different preferred outcomes, it is normal as Democracy was never designed to abolish ambition but designed to civilise, teach the actors to compete without destroying one another, disagree without demonising one another and lose without setting fire to the very platform that gave the actors a voice.
He therefore calls for refusal to the temptation to be manipulated by the media, by mischief-makers, by vested interests, or by those who profit from division.
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