Waaay back when it was launched, the AFC leadership’s motley triune – drawn from the PNC (Trotman); PPP (Ramjattan) and WPA (Holder) – promised they’d be a “swing vote” in Parliament. They’d concluded that neither of the big guns showed themselves capable of looking beyond their holding office to “do the right thing”! So they’d vote either with the PPP or the PNC – depending where they stood “for the good of Guyana” on the issue at hand. The “good of the country” was gonna be their talisman and guide! Quite a few persons choked up at that happy prospect – a few tears might’ve even been shed – and even more voted for them in the 2006 elections.
They’d gone in with the PNC fella Trotman as their presidential candidate and picked up 5 seats – mostly drained from the moribund PNC – which leader Corbin just couldn’t jump-start. Maybe Trotman leaving the PNC ‘cause he couldn’t move past Corbin had something to do with it?!! But once in Parliament, the wankers never voted even once with the PPP!! The PPP really didn’t have a single good initiative between 2006 and 2011??
In 2011, they put the PPP fella Ramjattan as their presidential candidate – even as Corbin did a makeover with the PNC by selecting an outsider PNCite – Granger – as the PNC leader and corralled some pipsqueak parties to form APNU. It worked, the PNC’s haemorrhage was stopped and the PPP lost some supporters – who’d become jaded. But still no voting with the PPP – and even nixed the AFHEP along with the APNU – which the neutral Norwegians endorsed as the best thing for Guyana since plait bread!!
And having cuddled up with PNC/APNU over AFHEP, it wasn’t no surprise there was a Valentine’s Day engagement in 2015 – with a Prenup called the Cummingsburg Accord. It promised a wedding dowry of 40% Ministries and the Prime Ministership after the coming elections. They swore there wasn’t no issue they agreed on with the PPP. Well, old people say all smart flies does end up on cow’s backside – and the AFC ended up being nothing more than PNC/APNU’s post-2015 doormats and toilet paper.
They were tossed out on their ears in 2020 – as we all know – and right now are trying to do a makeover à la Corbin’s 2011 PNC makeover!! But rather than bringing in an outsider as Corbin did, they dumped the ex-PPP Ramjattan; brought back the ex-PNC Trotman and an ex-Chairman, Nigel Hughes. But maybe that move is understandable: not learning from their (bitter) experience of going into a coalition with the PNC/APNU, they’re now committed to repeating the move!!
What’d they say about doin’ the same thing and expecting different results?
