Written by Kwesi Isles for DEMERARA WAVES
Thursday, 27 October 2011 23:28
Moses Nagamootoo takes to the AFC platform
Former Peoples’ Progressive Party (PPP) stalwart Moses Nagamootoo say the PPP will “sink” without him.
He made the comment Thursday evening at an Alliance For Change (AFC) rally at Parade Ground following the party’s submission of its Lists of Candidates to GECOM officials.
“A true son stands up to wrong in a house and I had decided that I was no longer a part of this defecated place that they had turned into almost - I would not mention what house.
And for me it was well and okay if I were on that ship playing a role on the PPP ship, I might have saved it, but since they decided they would throw me out then the ship will sink,” Nagamootoo declared to loud cheers from the hundreds who gathered for the rally.
He joins former PPP member Khemraj Ramjattan and former PNCR member Raphael Trotman at the head of the AFC list and has been assured a VP slot if they win the November 28 polls.
Nagamootoo said he had stood for internal democracy in the PPP but was “railroaded” and yet he returned to the party in 2006. According to him, those PPP members and supporters who suffered for the party but still lost power in 2006 did not deserve such a fate.
“Today I invite these members and supporters to join me on this revolutionary crusade because they deserve better. They deserve better leaders, their own leaders have betrayed them,” he stated.
Nagamootoo, who had been associated with the PPP for some 50 years said the party’s leaders have vindicated the fears of decent people by rigging the internal elections “to manufacture an election candidate.”
In announcing his decision to leave the party on Monday he had pointed to the party’s failure to heed his proposal to allow the wider membership a say in the election of the PPP presidential candidate as the last straw.
On Thursday Nagamootoo also alleged that a “Jagdeo cabal” twisted the decisions of the PPP Congress to meet its ends.
“Every time that they went to a Congress and they elect their leaders to the leadership of the party an internal cabal controlled by Jagdeo and financed by Jagdeo and fed by Jagdeo will undo the results of the Congress. It has been an insult to the members and supporters of the party and these are the leaders who have to be condemned and removed in the elections come November 28.”
Also joining the AFC platform was Valerie Garrido-Lowe the former presidential candidate for The United Force (TUF) which has been beset by internal leadership squabbles over the last two months. A faction of the party supporting former TUF leader and PPP government minister Manzoor Nadir say Garrido-Lowe was expelled from the party in September while she argues that the move was not in keeping with the party’s constitution.
According to her, she was both sad at the state in which TUF finds itself but she was happy with being part of the AFC.
“I had to make a decision; I would have fought until the end because somebody has to stand up and fight. You cannot put your tail between your legs and run away when the power and the money comes behind you.”
Garrido-Lowe told the crowd that it was time to stand up for their rights and added that that was what she was doing.
Thursday, 27 October 2011 23:28
Moses Nagamootoo takes to the AFC platform
Former Peoples’ Progressive Party (PPP) stalwart Moses Nagamootoo say the PPP will “sink” without him.
He made the comment Thursday evening at an Alliance For Change (AFC) rally at Parade Ground following the party’s submission of its Lists of Candidates to GECOM officials.
“A true son stands up to wrong in a house and I had decided that I was no longer a part of this defecated place that they had turned into almost - I would not mention what house.
And for me it was well and okay if I were on that ship playing a role on the PPP ship, I might have saved it, but since they decided they would throw me out then the ship will sink,” Nagamootoo declared to loud cheers from the hundreds who gathered for the rally.
He joins former PPP member Khemraj Ramjattan and former PNCR member Raphael Trotman at the head of the AFC list and has been assured a VP slot if they win the November 28 polls.
Nagamootoo said he had stood for internal democracy in the PPP but was “railroaded” and yet he returned to the party in 2006. According to him, those PPP members and supporters who suffered for the party but still lost power in 2006 did not deserve such a fate.
“Today I invite these members and supporters to join me on this revolutionary crusade because they deserve better. They deserve better leaders, their own leaders have betrayed them,” he stated.
Nagamootoo, who had been associated with the PPP for some 50 years said the party’s leaders have vindicated the fears of decent people by rigging the internal elections “to manufacture an election candidate.”
In announcing his decision to leave the party on Monday he had pointed to the party’s failure to heed his proposal to allow the wider membership a say in the election of the PPP presidential candidate as the last straw.
On Thursday Nagamootoo also alleged that a “Jagdeo cabal” twisted the decisions of the PPP Congress to meet its ends.
“Every time that they went to a Congress and they elect their leaders to the leadership of the party an internal cabal controlled by Jagdeo and financed by Jagdeo and fed by Jagdeo will undo the results of the Congress. It has been an insult to the members and supporters of the party and these are the leaders who have to be condemned and removed in the elections come November 28.”
Also joining the AFC platform was Valerie Garrido-Lowe the former presidential candidate for The United Force (TUF) which has been beset by internal leadership squabbles over the last two months. A faction of the party supporting former TUF leader and PPP government minister Manzoor Nadir say Garrido-Lowe was expelled from the party in September while she argues that the move was not in keeping with the party’s constitution.
According to her, she was both sad at the state in which TUF finds itself but she was happy with being part of the AFC.
“I had to make a decision; I would have fought until the end because somebody has to stand up and fight. You cannot put your tail between your legs and run away when the power and the money comes behind you.”
Garrido-Lowe told the crowd that it was time to stand up for their rights and added that that was what she was doing.
