Your Eyewitness isn’t afraid to admit when he’s been wrong about something. He doesn’t LIKE to eat humble pie…but hey!!…it’s better than committing hara kiri like the Japs or drinking hemlock like the Greeks!! Humble pie might taste bitter – but your Eyewitness gonna be here to quaff another pint – which even the Gods crave, thank you!! So yesterday when he wrote that the Opposition parties were unable to come up with a consensus candidate – and was a tad snippy about that failure! – he now accepts he was dead wrong!!
Your Eyewitness can make all sorta excuses that the parties were publicly playing three-card monte with PNC’s Norton, AFC’s Hughes and Church’s Campbell – and couldn’t break that logjam. Those were the only cards he was allowed to see – and even then there was the challenge – “Now you see it…now you don’t by the WPA’s geriatrics!!” The Norton card being flashed showed the PNC’s massive African Guyanese, salt of the earth support base behind him.
But this was quickly countered by the Hughes card with the support of “those who counted” and were “born to rule” with silver spoons in their mouths and sceptres in their hands!! That the chatterati in the media were also in his corner didn’t hurt!! And then to throw your Eyewitness for a loop was the Campbell card – with a promise of an eight-piece Chicken takeaway to every Guyanese with teeth! Even though that disqualified babies and toddlers – it wasn’t fatal since they couldn’t vote anyway!!
As such your Eyewitness had no way of knowing that all of them were secretly courting the man who’d brought victory for them in 2015!! NO – NOT GRANGER!! He’d been there merely to signal a gentler, kinder, more urbane PNC now rebranded with the fig leaf of APNU. His vacuous smile and propensity to drop on his knees at the drop of a pin made him seem so harmless – but he couldn’t bring VICTORY since he could only appeal to the PNC base!! And no…Rumjhaat with his AFC couldn’t do it either since well…most political meetings are held near enough to the rum shops that draw him more powerfully than magnets!!
No…the man who brought victory to the coalition was no other than Moses “Big Mo” Nagamootoo!! This was a man who’d been politically suckled at the feet of Jagan – and had telepathically communicated to Big Mo in the deep Rupununi that he was the chosen successor!! But those wankers in the PPP refused to have Big Mo lead them – just because he didn’t have any stone tablets as proof of his anointment!!
But now that he’s chosen as the Opposition’s consensus candidate -victory is certain!!
Happy “April Fool’s Day”!!!
…AFC delusions
But all joking aside, the AFC gave your Eyewitness a good guffaw when he read their last demands to Norton and the PNC. It read like their last rites!! Are these fellas for real?? A “60-40 split at all levels of government with 60% of the positions being held by representatives of the APNU.” Wow!! Aren’t they gracious to ALLOW the PNC to have 60% of not just the ministries – but at ALL levels of government!! Such humility for them to ACCEPT only 40% of these appointments.
However, for their second demand they didn’t leave anything to chance –“ the Party naming the Presidential Candidate can’t name the Leader of the list”!! Guess they’re not leaving the 40% appointments to change – since they found out in 2015 there’s no honour among thieves?? Lastly, AFC’s “Nigel Hughes SHALL be the Party’s Presidential Candidate.” So much for the man’s promise to “step aside” for someone else to be the “consensus candidate”!!
Ahh well…The PPP must be laughing all the way to the polling stations!!
…road rules
If the automated speeding ticket system had been introduced last week – rather than next week – Rubio’s vehicle wouldn’t have been speeding like he was on the Indy 500 to threaten him with “concussions”.
