THE AFC is among the opposition parties in Guyana that preache about the desperate need for shared governance. It is absolutely clear given what we have been seeing over the last week that the AFC is not practising what it preaches by refusing to adhere to its own principle on rotating the leadership in the party between Raphael Trotman and Khemraj Ramjattan. The AFC has lost an excellent opportunity to demonstrate its sincerity on honouring its principles but what we are seeing instead is a “dilly-dally” that is hurting the image of the party now resembling the internal leadership crises of its sister party PNCR.
Ramjattan has been sidelined in the process while Peter Ramsaroop and Gomattie Singh, all AFC faithful have suffered similar fates.
The ever-widening disunity in the party has stemmed from the seeming dishonesty in party politics. There is also a salient accusation about the undemocratic manner in which the AFC is run.
Trotman is obviously pulling a ‘’Corbinite’’ trick on the AFC membership, after all they are political buddies, by using the National Executive Committee as the body to buy time out of the crises he has created by reneging on the leadership rotation deal.
If the AFC is unable to deal with a principle it articulated about rotating its leadership how then can they call for and be willing to be a part of any larger deal on shared-governance outside the party.
If the AFC is unable to share among itself how can they promote sharing at the national level?