Region 4 Chairman tried PNC bullying tactics

Dear Editor,
Please allow me to share my views on the recent outburst by the Regional Chairman of the Regional Democratic Council of Region Four as to what took place at the Regional Republic Anniversary Flag Raising Ceremony.
Brothers and sisters, the Regional Chairman acted in a very callous manner by using the PNC bullying ways in wanting to hijack the regional event by trying to dictate what he wants and who must speak.
Sadly, it had to be done like that in public, where the REO had to take steps to ensure that the said event was not hijacked by the PNC Regional Chairman.
I am sure the Regional Chairman was made aware of the agenda for the said activity. But I know of this party’s tactics to gain low political points, whereby he will be pressured to say that he never knew of the agenda but was given minutes before the programme got underway.
If that will be his claim, then he had minutes to ask the REO for a consultation with him, as to what you are suggesting as to who and who should be included as speakers for the event. But instead of that, he tried to use his party bullying tactics in trying to throw the original programme away.
The Chairman tried to disrespect the REO and all at the event by dictating who must be or should be speakers at the event, without notifying the chair of the event or those responsible for putting the programme together.
That’s disrespectful of you, as head of the RDC. But yet again, that’s the way that his party works, because I can recall that, from 2015 to 2020, APNU – which is PNC – while in Government, hijacked all of the national and regional events by imposing who should speak and who should not, who should take part and who should not.
As a former RDC Councillor of Region Five, I can recall that the then REO and the Chief Councillor on the Government side of the RDC were not allowing the PPP Regional Chairman, Vice Chairman, or Councillors to be part of any national event committee meeting, or to take part at regional events as head and members of the RDC.
That was not done regionally only, but nationally also by the then PNC Government, by rejecting the former Opposition MP members of the PPP to be involved in our national events’ celebrations.
The Chairman at no time said he was assaulted by the REO, but later made that allegation against the Regional Executive Officer, and went further by reporting the matter to the Police.
We all know that the Chairman was pressured to make that report by his party and his party leader, so that they could try to win some cheap political points.
The Region Four RDC Chairman had no authority to change the Regional Republic Flag-Raising Ceremony agenda without notifying anyone, and moreover, the REO did the right thing by ensuring that the PNC Chairman does not hijack the programme to fit his party’s agenda.
I want to applaud the REO for standing up against the PNC Regional Chairman’s bullyism and/or hijacking, and want to remind the PNC that there is a saying that goes “duh fuh duh nah obeah”.

Regards,
Abel Seetaram