STATEMENT TO THE MEDIA
Dear Editors: ... KING LIARS: LIE, YOU HEAR LIES?
LIE NO. 5:
Jagdeo said that one John Silas said to him that Cheddi Jagan never named me as his successor.
THAT’S A PUSSUR-PUSSUR LIE!
John Silas was NOT present at the Lethem meeting.
I am on record as writing Donald Ramotar, in his capacity as PPP General Secretary, that “he would have known, that upon my return to Georgetown, I was summoned to an emergency Executive Committee meeting at Freedom House.
Party Organiser John Silas, who was not an ExCo member, was invited to the meeting, Comrade Janet demanded that I should explain “what happed at Lethem?”
“I related what Comrade Cheddi said, and my reaction to that by suppressing publication of the remarks that I could possibly be a replacement for him at the 1997 elections.
I explained why I had an angry argument with the Organiser [John Silas] for being absent from the meeting, when the microphones broke down; how, when he told me that I had no authority to question him, I chided him for not hearing what Comrade Cheddi had said, and how I added sarcastically ‘You could be looking at the next president!’”
I added in my letter that “Comrade Cheddi was within hearing distance in the next room, while that brawl was going on…”.
That matter was never again raised in my presence with (President) Cheddi Jagan.
I was to be at his side until the fatal day that he was flown out from Guyana during February 1997, only to die days later.
He never denied what he had said at Lethem.
End of story.