Despicable Kissoon instigating an insurrection against Jagdeo (Pt 2)

Dear Editor,
As written in Freddie Kissoon’s column on Monday, April 23, 2018, “I have people that I call personal friends in the Alliance For Change’s leadership but my deeply honest opinion if they ask me is that the ground is shaky. I don’t know if the fulcrums could be strengthened before 2020 but I honestly doubt it. As for Indians voting for the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), that is not even a remote possibility. APNU is not a party for Guyana’s future. I don’t see leadership qualities in the APNU. The People’s National Congress (PNC) may get into trouble in 2020 for what it did to David Hinds and Lincoln Lewis. When you talk about stupidity then the ouster of those two men is an unadulterated act of stupidity… For the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), the closeness to victory will depend on who is their presidential candidate. Once it is Bharrat Jagdeo, the PPP will lose the game. The stakes are too high with oil and a rebirth of big power rivalry in international relations for the West to sit down and allow Jagdeo to govern again… My understanding is that there is an anti-Jagdeo group of planners working out from the Cheddi Jagan Research Library. If they are planning to make their move, if and when Jagdeo answers the question, then they are big fools. They are stupid to think Jagdeo is going to define his position before the Caribbean Court of Justice rules on the matter. Commonsense should dictate they organise against him ASAP!” Kissoon has repeatedly said while he will not be campaigning for the APNU/AFC in 2020, he will do whatever it takes to prevent a PPP/Civic victory. But this latest salvo aimed at instigating an insurrection against Jagdeo within the PPP/C should be viewed as another desperate attempt to propagate the lies being peddled by some in the Administration that the ABC countries have guaranteed the APNU/AFC another five years in Government.
Let me state categorically that I do not believe the ABC countries played any role in the defeat of the PPP/C at the 2015 General Election. It was a combination of PNC vote-rigging as evident by the discovery of fake Statements of Poll by the Guyana Elections Commission’s (GECOM) Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield; a sizable number of complacent PPP supporters who stayed home and did not vote; and the many sugar workers and rice farmers who were duped into voting for the APNU/AFC because they were promised a 20 per cent increase and $9000 a bag for paddy.
Had GECOM not declined the PPP/C request for a recount of votes in Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni), the APNU/AFC would now be a minority Government. It is time for the courts to rule on the Elections Petition filed by the PPP/C on this matter.
Freddie’s personal attacks against Bharrat Jagdeo will not succeed, and certainly will not influence the outcome of our party’s Presidential Candidate. That will be determined by the Executive Committee of the PPP. And despite the lies that are propagated by Freddie Kissoon and the APNU/AFC Administration, there is no evidence that the ABC countries would risk their collective credibility to prop up an unpopular government that is corrupt; inept and undemocratic. By now, they too must be praying for a PPP/C landslide in 2020.

Sincerely,
Harry Gill
PPP/C Member of
Parliament