By Luka Binniyat

KADUNA—Northern traditional rulers, yesterday, asked politicians to play politics with decorum, and to stop engaging in campaigns of calumny against one another.

Chairman Northern Traditional Council and Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, who spoke at an emergency meeting of the council in Kaduna, said as leaders of the people, traditional rulers would always engage politicians in sincere discourses.

He said: “We must always work for peace and stability of the country. We must also stop campaign of calumny against one another because it will not augur well for all of us and the unity of Nigeria.

“As traditional leaders, we must always tell our politicians the truth. We must not keep quiet about what is happening in the country. We must speak for the peace in the north; we must speak for peace in Nigeria and we must speak for the unity of Nigeria.

“We are against what is happening in the north, especially in north-east. So we will not keep quiet because there are lots of wrongs happening in the polity. People always talk about election, but I never hear them talking about what happens after and during elections.

“People should be allowed to choose the political party of their choice, because politics is all about interests.

“I want to remind us, as traditional leaders, of our roles of dousing tension during the elections, and also advising parents to call their children to order.”