THE singular campaign outreaches being conducted by the Alliance For Change (AFC) are seen by former president, Dr Bharrat Jagdeo as a tactic to mislead the Guyanese people.

As such, he is warning Guyanese to be very wary of this undertaking and not be fooled, since a vote for AFC is a vote to make Brigadier (rtd) David Granger president.
“There is no more AFC; what you are voting for effectively is to make Granger president of Guyana,” Dr Jagdeo stressed at a news conference last Friday at Freedom House.
“Now they are subsumed; Granger will decide everything,” he said, adding: “They are baggage to APNU (A Partnership for National Unity); they are peripheral to APNU’s main thrust. So when they come into the village, they only come with a little yellow flag to fool people; they no longer exist.”
According to Jagdeo, the Alliance For Change no longer has any “leverage”, given their “marriage” with APNU.
Referring to the promise from Moses Nagamootoo, APNU+AFC prime ministerial candidate, to deliver “11 per cent of the Indian votes” in Berbice to APNU, he reasoned that the singular campaigning is premised on the fact that he is looking to deliver.
“A number of people have come up to me and ask me why the AFC continues to campaign as if it were a party again in their villages…that is an elections ploy,” he declared.
Dr Jagdeo said, “There is absolutely no AFC. They exist on paper only. That from nomination day, when a single list of candidates was presented to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and from that day onwards, the AFC we knew in the past ceased to exist.”
He highlighted the fact that even if APNU+AFC were to be successful at the upcoming polls, Granger would be president and executive powers reposed with him.
“He would be Head of State and Head of Government. The Prime Minister is appointed by the President, and if on day two, Granger decides to fire Nagamootoo, he has absolutely no recourse… even if they disagree on issues and Nagamootoo were to vote against projects in Parliament from APNU, Nagamootoo can be recalled, because it is against the legislation to vote against its own party,” Jagdeo said.
Similar sentiments were reiterated when the former president took to the campaign platform on Sunday at Bath Settlement, Region 5. (Vanessa Narine)

‘Now they are subsumed; Granger will decide everything. They are baggage to APNU; they are peripheral to APNU’s main thrust. So when they come into the village, they only come with a little yellow flag to fool people; they no longer exist’ — Bharrat Jagdeo