Former President Jonathan Cautions Politicians Against Throwing Tantrums

Hamilton Nwosa
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The need for politicians to be weary on the deployment of their vocabularies in the execution of campaigns, once again, came to the fore at the weekend when former President GoodLuck Ebele Jonathan particularly cautioned Aspirants seeking election into various offices against throwing tantrums at one another In the guise of campaign.

Jonathan who gave this advice while playing host to the Presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi at Yanagoawa’ residence in Bayelsa state, admonished politicians that the use of abusive words to run down opponents, doesn’t mean well in the development of the nation’s democracy.

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