Abuses, personality attacks never win elections- Waya

From Mustapha Adamu, Kano

A Kano-based aspiring politician, Alhaji Inuwa Waya has said that raining abuses and attacking personalities is inimical and will never win election.
Waya stated this in a powerful message he had sent to his teeming supporters and well wishers as part of his preparation to venture into active politics in the second most populous state in the country.
In the five-minute long message, being aired on radio stations in the state this week, Waya called on his supporters to imbibe the culture of peace and tolerance in politics.

He said “abuses, insults and smear campaign lead to nowhere, but a direct path to rejection.
“You must see your participation in politics as a call to service and also seeks to build bridges and not walls” he added
In the inspiring message, aired in Hausa language, Waya urged his supporters as well as anyone who believes in championing the cause of development through politics ti refrain from making provocative comments against any person or group of people.
He added that he would never support any action that would debase society, breaching the law, which he said unavoidably resulted in a disastrous end.
The soon-to-be-born politician added that “he who believes to bask under the euphoria of an amicable approach in politics, can only sell his candidate through persuasion, and respecting the right of others to sell theirs, not the other way round through the means of forceful candidate imposition.”
In relating with people, Inuwa Waya admitted that, despite having experienced the worst form of provocation in life, still he wasn’t a short-fused person, very accommodative, and thick-skin to the extent of acquiring of shock-absorbers capable to withstand the test of provocation from any political angle, an approach which he employed his teeming supporters and well-wishers to follow the suit.
He noted that based on his life-long understanding that patience is a virtue of human being and equally realized that anger is the worst form of punishment one can give to himself.
“By the virtue of the amended provision of section 40 of the 1999 constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria i assure all and sundry, particularly my teeming supporters of accepting their mammoth calls and will fully participate and even contest in an elective office as soon as INEC gives a nod.