Cabinet, not intra/extra-parliamentary dialogue, is Opposition’s goal
There was an ‘aha’ moment when, during a interview aired on Channel 28, with AFC’s Moses Nagamootoo and PNC’s Carl Greenidge, the moderator asked of the duo what they would have done if they were in the President’s position and faced with a no-confidence motion that threatened to dissolve Parliament with immediate effect, with all its implications; and the response of both was that they would have included the Opposition (meaning the PPP/C in such an instance) in the Cabinet so such a contretemps would not have arisen.
President Donald Ramotar
They said that, in their elections campaign, they had promised to share power with the losers in a Government of inclusivity. In other words, they would have fit PPP/C leaders in key positions in their Cabinet:
Joke of the century.
One only has to take as an example the grabfest displayed by the joint Opposition, acting in collusion, of the Speaker’s and Deputy Speakers’ positions and the parliamentary committees, as well as other areas of power and institutions where Opposition supporters hold sway to recognise the blatant obfuscating of their real nature and intent, which is to grab power at any cost, even if they destroy the nation – as the PNC has done once before.
Nagamootoo further snidely remarked that if he was President, he would have had a majority in Parliament. This man’s egomania is what has led to this current impasse in the nation, because it was his no-confidence motion intended to remove the Government, headed by Donald Ramotar, whom he envies beyond reason, that threatened the dissolution of Parliament and forced the President to resort to prorogation; and it is evident in this remark that his aspirations to attain the highest office in the land have infused him with delusions of grandeur, when the reality is that he piggy-backed on the popularity of the Jagans and his decades-long association with the PPP to fool some of the PPP’s supporters that he was going to use whatever support he received to make changes for the better, without letting them know that he would use their support to empower the hated PNC and join them in actions inimical to PPP supporters, and the entire nation, in his envious prognostications, pronouncements, actions, and general rhetoric since being accommodated on the AFC benches.
Moses Nagamootoo
The only reason Ramjattan and Nagamootoo are refusing to formally join with the PNC in a coalition effort to win the next election is that they would lose the financial and other support of the Indian community, and they also recognise the fact that they would be subsumed and then spat out after the PNC had used them to get into Government, as they did Peter D’Aguiar and the United Force. However, Ramjattan said that his objective is to destroy PPP strongholds, thereby demolishing Indians, who would then have no protection against the marauding PNC.
The duo are cognizant of the fact that the AFC could never win an election in Guyana; but their only hope of remaining in the political power realm is to keep an independent political identity whereby they can join the PNC – as they have done in the Tenth Parliament to derail progress in the nation – largely to vent against the party that obliterated them, and to stymie national progress under their former comrades, who have positions that they covet beyond reason.
They know that, like Winston Murray was, they would be kept out of the real corridors of power in a PNC Government construct; whereby Nigel Hughes, speaking at a PNC rally to protest the President’s prorogation orders, promised the crowd a broader alliance with the PNC/APNU configuration in the future. Trotman would also be welcomed back home, while the likes of Ramjattan and Nagamootoo, after being used to “destroy PPP strongholds”, would be discarded like so much waste.
An INews report stated: As of recent, there were talks of the AFC merging with the APNU, an idea which Opposition Leader Granger welcomes, but one which Ramjattan is reluctant to consider.
Mr. Khemraj Ramjattan, AFC Leader
Ramjattan, in his explanation on Facebook, noted that the biggest blunder the APNU and AFC can make at this point, in their individual objective to displace the PPP, is to merge.
“Apart from the huge challenges and dilemmas which will have to be confronted and surmounted in relation to a host of administrative issues, the serious error behind such a merger will be the dissolution of the AFC in the eyes of non-supporters of APNU, largely East Indians, but not exclusively them.”
Ramjattan further noted, “The AFC is the only Party now in Guyana, because of our still continuing polarized, ethnicised voting patterns, which can do major destruction to the PPP strongholds!”
Ramjattan and Nagamootoo have been leading the charge with the No Confidence Motion against the Government, which has since caused President Donald Ramotar to prorogue the Parliament.
So Nagamootoo and Ramjattan, whether they merge before or after election, are part of the PNC’s train that they hope will take them to their ultimate goal; but which, in President Donald Ramotar’s words, would leave them holding “Lowrah.”
excerpts from the Guyana Chronicle
