Well, there you had it– the last hurrah of the political parties contesting today’s elections. For three – PPP, PNC/APNU, and WIN – it ended with bangs!! But for the remaining four – AFC, FGM, etc.… it ended with whimpers of varying cringiness! It ain’t nice to see grown folks cry – but hey…they asked for it!! Their performances raised a variant of the old conundrum – if a party calls a rally but no one shows up to rally, was the party really a party – or just a projection of some inflated egos??!!
The PNC/APNU – not surprisingly – chose the Square of the Revolution for their last hurrah. Fat Boy Burnham tried to rewrite history to identify himself with Cuffy – who’d rebelled against the Dutch -because HE on the other hand, had shamelessly collaborated with the British! He installed Cuffy’s statue near his Office of the President and regularly summoned the faithful to pay obeisance to him under Cuffy’s baleful gaze!! Aubrey showed up with his ragged incarnation of the PNC – and was able to muster a decent crowd.
However, he lost his chance to show some creativity and redeem his party from being humiliated today when he once again promised everything under the sun – and then some!! – but didn’t apologise for his party’s rigging attempt after the 2020 elections!! To anyone who might’ve wanted to give the PNC a chance for auld lang syne, it must’ve been a disappointment. If he unrepentantly refused to change the script on rigging, how could anyone not believe all his grandiose promises were just mama-guying??!! The rally on Saturday will prove to be the last rites for the PNC. Ironically, the WPA – which Fat Boy had derided as the “Worst Possible Alternative” – was there to help read the rites!!
Sanction Man’s WIN party selected the Kingston beachfront behind Guyana’s emblematic Marriott Hotel – ironically built by VP Jagdeo, the man he loves to lambast! – for their last hurrah. It was in form – the scrapeheads he’s stolen from the PNC could revel in the locale under the illusion they were sharing the high life their leader had enjoyed from his ill-gotten gains!! Anyhow, Sanction Man finally revealed his PM candidate just before the midnight hour –not Fatta who’s stood by him through thick and thin – but a gal who’s hopscotched from four parties in five years!! Taste and buy??
And then there was the PPP’s last rally at Lusignan – in the constituency from where Dr Jagan launched modern politics in Guyana – and the PPP!! The PPP’s top brass were there and simply had to remind the mammoth Red Tsunami they could expect more of the development they’d experienced over the last five years – just bigger and better!! 39 seats?
…Opposition blathering?
Listening to the PNC/APNU complaining about the PPP’s government since 2020 – have they forgotten in 2000 they beat, looted, burnt and stuck pins into Janet dolls until the Constitution was changed to give them and other opposition parties real-time powers to scrutinise governmental spending?? The old Public Accounts Committee’s also still around under their Chair to deal with past spending.
Your Eyewitness is talking about the four Parliamentary Sectoral Committees (PSC) that cover EVERY aspect of the government’s activities – Economic, Social, Foreign Affairs and Natural Resources!! The Chair of these committees are rotated every year. So, at any point, the Opposition chairs of two PSCs have the authority to summon anyone in the government – save the President – and interrogate them on where our money’s going!!
So, why’s the Opposition blathering on ad nauseam that the government’s doing their own thing with no oversight?? If this is happening, isn’t it because they’ve lapsed in their duties?
Which they gotta uphold for the next five years at least?
…complaint?
GECOM’s allowing WIN to field polling agents even though they didn’t comply with the legal requirements. Sanction Man had threatened to not recognise the results – with the implication he woulda sicced his Scrapeheads to repeat the post-Adrianna mayhem!!
