ROHEE TELLS THOUSANDS AT ESSEQUIBO: 22 DAYS TO GO! –They call it E-Day, but we call it Victory Day (V-Day)
“TWENTY-TWO days to go! They call it E-Day, we call it V-Day; as, next month at this time, we will be celebrating another victory of the PPP/C!”
Those confident words departed the lips of People’s Progressive Party / Civic (PPP/C) General Secretary, Clement Rohee, they were enthusiastically received by thousands of PPP/C supporters who gathered at Damon Square at Anna Regina, Essequibo Coast for one of the incumbent party’s rallies.
In his vibrant address, Rohee disclosed that May 11 is a day when the Guyanese people will decide whether the country goes forward or backward, and the PPP/C believes that the majority wants to go forward. Therefore, he noted, the PPP/C’s policy stands as, “Forward ever! Backward Never!”
“We started a journey in 1992 which always had the people of Guyana at the centre, and today we are still working towards a better Guyana! We want a strong, stable and secure Government, and that is the direction we are moving in, with the support of the Guyanese people,” he underscored.
Stressing the importance of the people’s support, the PPP/C stalwart highlighted that thousands of people had stayed at home and did not vote at the 2011 elections. This, Rohee urged, should not recur.
He encouraged his expressive Essequibo audience not to allow a single person to stay at home and not participate in these elections, as, he said: “Every single person must come out and vote to put back the PPP/C in power!”
He declared that was one of the contributing factors to the bitter experiences which the PPP/C had suffered because of not having won the majority vote in the 2011 elections.
He said the situation had forced the PPP/C to share the Parliament with the now coalesced A Partnership For National Unity and the Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC), and because of the Opposition’s behaviour in the National Assembly, the PPP/C had decided to shut down the Parliament and were forced to go to elections one and a half years earlier than was due.
“Nevertheless,” he said, “irrespective of all the Opposition’s imaginations, we will be victorious once again, as we still have the strength and determination and the confidence of the people! Because, as we make our promises, we deliver!” a profound Rohee declared.
JAGAN’S LEGACY
Apart from members’ individual struggles, Rohee disclosed, the PPP/C carried the struggle for the entire Guyanese population, and yet “the Opposition came to us and said that we are betraying the legacy of Jagan. But if providing portable drinking water, distributing thousands of house lots, increasing assistance to pensioners, and providing school children with meals and uniforms is betraying Dr. Jagan’s legacy, then something is wrong, he declared.
“The PPP/C has never, and will never, betray the people of this country, as the traitors who left the PPP/C and joined the Opposition betrayed Jagan’s legacy,” he announced.
Rohee declared that the Opposition must confess their sins, as the Guyanese people must stand up and defend each polling station and each ballot box.
GRANGER IN DANGER
Meanwhile, apart from the foregoing, the PPP/C General Secretary said: “Granger is in danger, as he’s facing the danger of Ramotar and Harper to move him off the political scene.”
Rohee disclosed that the presidential candidate for the APNU+AFC ought to be afraid even of persons in his own camp. He said, “The power hungry Nagamootoo wants to throw him out!”
The Opposition APNU+AFC party is currently engaged in gambling, Rohee declared; but for the love the PPP/C has for this country, it does not want to gamble, neither does its members want to put the future of this country in the hands of the corrupt APNU+AFC alliance.
Rohee lastly said: “I am encouraging each and every one of you to work hard, because every vote counts; and every one of us must do so because we want continuity and we want the PPP/C to remain as the ruling party!”
Also speaking at that Essequibo meeting was PPP/C stalwart Ali Baksh, who announced: “I bet my life that this is the largest crowd ever at any rally in Essequibo, and this shows that we are ready to put back the PPP/C in power!”
Baksh said the PPP/C, along with the entire Guyana, struggled in the political wilderness where many people lost their lives, and now the PPP/C’s social policies are hell bent for betterment of the Guyanese people.
“This is a party of a proud history, in which everyone together achieved what the party has achieved; and there is much more that has to be done, and it will be done collectively under the leadership of the PPP/C!” Mr. Baksh declared.
By Navendra Seoraj