The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2019 general election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has asked the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), to imbibe issue-based campaigns devoid of slandering and name calling.

Atiku in a statement on Tuesday by the Spokesman of his Presidential Campaign Organization, Segun Showunmi said unguarded narrative hurts the country and further divide the people along ethnic and religious lines.

 “Some of the consequences of previous mismanaged campaign efforts is perhaps the reason why their is little or no internal cohesion with its attendant security challenges.”

“Elections comes every 4 years in our country and if great effort is not taken, we could hurt the country and its people needlessly and invariably our democracy.”

 “We have to sign up to this ideals, we can campaign without recourse to hate speech, libel, lies, undue criminalization of people and each other.”

“On our part we have signed up to running an issue based campaign and if it is not too hard for the Muhammad Buhari administration and the APC to understand, we call on you to do the same.

“There is greater value in doing so. Nigeria is the most populous black nation on earth and we owe it to ourselves and the black race to be above board.”

“We are merely trying to present our idea on how the country should be lead and not interested in anything else. And by so doing, set Nigeria and its people on the path of working again,” Atiku said.