DECISION TIME WILL SOON COME

A MOST pertinent question, amid the prevailing silly politicking by the Alliance For Change (AFC), is for how much longer the decision-making councils of the People’s National Congress Reform intend to “play politics” with the so-called “leaders” of that minority group?When it’s not Vice-Chairman Moses Nagamootoo engaging in political ‘baby talk’ that, for instance, likens India’s most welcome offer to invest US$50 million in the proposed East Bank/East Coast road project to that of a “fly-by-night idea” (what an absurd insult)-we now have that party’s latest discovered “political consultant,” Daizal Samad, forecasting that there would be “no coalescing” between the AFC and the PNCR.
Well, with arrangements in process for new local, regional and national elections we should learn within the coming months of the losers and victors—party wise and otherwise. Stay tuned. However, for the decision-makers of the PNCR it must be quite embarrassing, if not humiliating, to be publicly subjected by the increasing double-talk, and behaviour of leading elements of the AFC, among their “comrades” Khemraj Ramjattan and Nagamootoo.
In fairness, the forked-tongue outbursts by leading figures of the PNCR, including when speaking on behalf of an apparent weakened APNU, further contribute to prevailing political confusion and uncertainties about their future in any possible ‘coalition.’
Following the recent public criticism by APNU’s chairman and PNC leader, David Granger, about continuing double-speak and failure by the AFC’s leadership to bring clarity to what they really want to discuss as an agenda for coalescing, APNU’s Basil Williams, who is also Deputy Speaker of Parliament, seems even more irritated over what he has now voiced as his disgust with what he deemed at a press conference on Friday as “pussyfooting” by the AFC’s leadership on a coalition arrangement.
Meanwhile, there continues to be widening interest in the sources of funding for both APNU and AFC in preparation for the coming elections with pertinent questions being raised in relation to their opposition in parliament last year to the passing of the anti-money laundering legislation.
The harsh reality, as Guyanese across the political divide would be aware, is that of a widening gulf between the leadership of APNU and AFC and the people on whose behalf they claim to speak. Time will tell. That time will soon come.

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