The All Progressives Congress has admonished the National
Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Olisa
Metuh, to show some decorum in his public statements and avoid the use
of trench language in public discourse.
Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Olisa
Metuh, to show some decorum in his public statements and avoid the use
of trench language in public discourse.
In a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday by its National Publicity
Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said Metuh’s increasing
resort to the use of putrid language in his press statements is distracting from the message he might want to pass across, while at the same time sending a bad signal to the younger generation of
Nigerians who look up to him and other politicians.
Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said Metuh’s increasing
resort to the use of putrid language in his press statements is distracting from the message he might want to pass across, while at the same time sending a bad signal to the younger generation of
Nigerians who look up to him and other politicians.
”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 pace setter. 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. 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 their vulgarity is stomach-churning,” it said.
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. 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 their vulgarity is stomach-churning,” it said.
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 has chosen to caution
the PDP spokesman rather than reply him in kind, hoping he will see the
reason for him not to continue on the path of profanity.
”After all, it was American religious leader Spencer W. Kimball who
said ‘Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly,”’ it said.
said ‘Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly,”’ it said.
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