…as APNU seems not to be planning to support no-confidence motion

PEOPLE’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary, Clement Rohee yesterday suggested that the Alliance For Change (AFC) had better prepare itself for a “major fall-out politically,” because A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) seem not to be moving in the direction of supporting the No-Confidence Motion.Rohee was speaking at the party’s weekly press conference at its Freedom House Headquarters.
“If APNU withdraw its support, we know well what we are heading for. It would seem to me that…the APNU is not pushing for the No-Confidence motion. I understand they are saying it is not their motion; it’s the AFC motion.
“So the AFC will have to decide at some point whether they withdraw the motion or push for it in a situation where the APNU seems to be looking in another direction. The handwriting is on the wall,” said Rohee.
Meanwhile, he said the party has noted with interest statements emanating from AFC on the question of national unity. “It seems that the concept of national unity articulated and embraced by the PPP is now being parroted by the Opposition parties. “These parties are now sheepishly singing, as it were, from the PPP’s hymn book in an attempt to take credit for something they never genuinely cared about.”
He said this posture by the AFC is nothing but another ploy to distract public attention from its internal problems and media attention generated as a consequence of damning allegations made against a senior executive of the party.
“The PPP calls on the Guyanese people not to be fooled by those who, by their very actions, have been responsible for the rupture of our economic and social fabric by putting roadblocks on a number of key development projects and by aligning themselves with forces that have been responsible for the destruction of our democratic, economic and cultural institutions.
“These obstructionist tactics employed by the APNU and their loyal side-kick, the AFC, have resulted in great harm to our people, in particular our young people which the AFC claims to represent. The PPP has every confidence that young people will not be influenced by the empty rhetoric and delusional politics aimed at brain-washing them into a false sense of reality,” Rohee remarked.
He pointed out that the PPP is of the view that the future of this country is dependent largely on its diverse people working together for the common good, through broad consensus on issues of national importance.
“Indeed, the PPP has always embraced political and ideological pluralism and inclusive governance in which every Guyanese can become meaningfully involved in the process of national development. Simply pontificating about national unity, as the AFC and APNU are doing, but at the same time placing roadblocks to major development projects and blackmailing the country internationally, cannot enhance the national good, and can only have a polarising effect in our quest for national reconciliation and a united and prosperous Guyana.
“The PPP calls on the Guyanese people to be vigilant and not to allow themselves to be hoodwinked by Opposition elements who try to seduce them with all manner of promises, but which they know fully well they lack the capacity to deliver on.
“As a mature political party, the PPP is fully committed to the cause of a Guyana in which there is room for every Guyanese, whether individually or through their representative organisations, to become part of a governance process,” said Rohee.

(By Telesha Ramnarine)