I WAS and, in fact, I am still very piqued with the JOPP/APNU launch, which took place last Friday. There are at least two reasons for feeling quite embittered at this farce, which is being foisted on Guyanese.

I hope that before too long, at least before the elections, the whole charade will be exposed.

My first reason for being incensed with this JOPP/APNU phenomenon is that of the impostering role it affords the PNCR. The PNCR has lost credibility, and this has created great insecurity within the party. That is why the PNCR never issued a condemnatory note against the ACDA speech by Tacoma Ogunseye.

Recently, the PNCR started a thwarting process against the ERC. These few examples highlight the treacherous nature of the PNCR. Over the years, it has shown itself to be very exploitative, and the JOPP/APNU ‘thing’ is just another ‘bad notch’ on the gun.

Secondly, I have a moral issue with the entire proceedings that took place on Friday, June 24, 2011. I ask one simple question: “How possible  is it for WPA and PNCR to be on the same platform?” This is synonymous to God and Satan being in (the same) Paradise.

The WPA lost its leader, Dr. Walter Rodney, via the hands of the PNC, and who is to say that David Granger was not privy to that fatal occurrence? Yet now, WPA’s Dr. Rupert Roopnarine and Prof. Clive Thomas are sitting on the same platform, with people who simply cannot be trusted. To me, if ever the WPA wanted a closure to the Rodney slaying, it would have been now. So this makes the ‘union’ very conniving, and gives the impression of a ‘jostling game,’ where the more clever and wicked will prevail.
So I ask again: “Can there really be a coalition of the forces of opposition?” The answer is a resounding no. PNCR is playing a game, and those foolish enough to take part are bound to suffer.