While business people are interested in providing support, he said, many of them do not want to do so publicly for fear of victimization. Businessmen in particular, who are conscious of new investments with the emerging oil and gas sector and who want a more stable political climate than what the opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) or  A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU-AFC) have been unable to provide, he said, are also showing an interest in ANUG.

Soup drinkers. They want to buy their influence as they did with the PNC and PPP.