The African Action Congress has said all Nigerians have the right to campaign and rally in any part of the country they deem fit.
The party also condemned the use of “caustic, divisive and threatening statements” among supporters of other presidential candidates, stating that Nigerian youths should not lose sight of the goal to change the country in the forthcoming elections.
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Femi Adeyeye, in a statement on Saturday, noted that the polity did not have to be heated up because of the 2023 elections.
“I want to use this medium to address some of the issues heating up our polity.
“It is a matter of fact that the Nigerian space has never been this polarised since it was established. No thanks to the nepotistic, clueless Buhari regime that has further widened the division among Nigerians, through very dangerous social and economic inequalities.
“Should we as people in the space then continue to widen the trench through divisive rhetoric of violent threats to one another, all in the name of a “campaign”?
“Our presidential campaign slogan, “We Cannot Continue Like This” speaks to not continuing on the path of ethno-religious divisions that have kept us all on a retrogressive plane.
“We are clear that getting out of this quagmire would not be through the path that brought us here in the first place.
“There must be a full 360-degree turn-around, which definitely includes the respect for all humans irrespective of age, social status, religion, or tribe,” part of the statement noted.
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