With fog-cutting clarity Dr Jeffery Kitingan, an appointed PKR vice-president and strategic director for Sabah and Sarawak, declined to join the race for a vice-presidential slot in the ongoing party polls for reasons he explained in a statement to the press in Kota Kinabalu.

As a piece of cautionary wisdom, the statement deserves to be nailed to the masthead of every campaign by contenders for positions...