Former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani has admonished presidential candidates and their supporters to refrain from making remarks that could heat up the polity.
Sani issued the admonition on Thursday in a post on his Twitter page.
He advised stakeholders to take cognisance of the charged and fragile state of the country, he implored them to conduct their campaigns with civility, maturity, and a sense of responsibility.
He added that resorting to ethnic and religious sentiment will further aggravate the parlous state of the nation.
He twitted saying, “In view of the fragile and inflammable state of this country, candidates and their supporters should conduct their campaigns with decency, maturity, and a sense of responsibility.
“Whipping up ethnic, sectional & religious sentiments will only burn down the country they want to lead”.
Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP); Bola Ahmed Tinubu of All Progressives Congress (APC); Peter Obi of Labour Party (LP); Prince Adewale Adebayo of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), among others are some of the strong presidential candidates jostling to occupy the nation’s number one seat in 2023.