Nigeria’s Vice President Kashim Shettima has urged leaders, aspirants, and supporters of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to desist from destructive politics.

Shettima made the call in a statement on Wednesday, calling on all and sundry to exercise restraint and maintain party unity as political consultations for the 2027 general elections begin.

The Vice President, in the statement titled: “2027: Don’t Pull Down the Roof”, likened the APC to a family that must not destroy its own house over internal ambitions.

According to him, the political season comes with familiar fever of democracy, stressing that consultations have begun across wards, local governments, party offices and private homes.

“The political season is here again. We don’t have to pull down the roof. We all should desist from destructive politics.

“Aspirants are making calls, elders are receiving visits, supporters are counting delegates, and the marketplace of ambition is alive once more.

“This is proof that our democracy still breathes. It is evidence that power in our republic is still something to be negotiated, contested, persuaded, and earned. But every season of politics also comes with its temptations.

“It comes with the temptation to mistake disagreement for betrayal, competition for enmity, preference for exclusion, and media interpretation for truth,” the statement partly read.