Mr Metuh, show some decorum please! - APC

Mr Metuh, show some decorum please! - APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has admonished the National
Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), 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 Mr. 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 a 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.

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 call the PDP spokesman to order 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.

Alhaji Lai Mohammed
National Publicity Secretary
All Progressives Congress (APC)
Lagos, Sept. 22nd 2015