THREE key members of the Alliance For Change (AFC) have reportedly defected to A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) following irreconcilable differences about campaign strategies and party management. The members are Economist, Tarron Khemraj, businessman, Rab Mukraj and Political Science Professor, Asquith Rose, while former soldier Malcolm Harripaul, who had long switched allegiance to the APNU, has also been formally added to the list of defectors.
This latest batch adds to the irrevocable resignation of Shamir Ally, a financier and lobbyist for the AFC, because of concerns over leadership approaches.
Rose has said that as many as 11 persons have decided to walk away from the AFC and according to him, several of them would go to APNU and the remainder back to the governing Peopleβs Progressive Party (PPP).