INTERESTINGLY, the NACTA poll results released last week mirrored the reality in Guyana vis-а-vis a PPP/C victory at the 2011 polls. The AFC, a fledgling party which sees the State Department as its Lord and Saviour, continues to live in self denial proclaiming that they will win the elections. Without doubt they will win! They have won it on the blogs and maybe in the US and Canada but that’s as far as their victory goes.  Campaigning in the US and Canada will not translate into a victory in Guyana. This is perhaps the biggest mess the AFC has engulfed itself in. They cannot conduct meetings with the grassroots, simply because their membership consists of the elite who scorn those on the ground.
In other words, they are unable to relate with the ordinary man in the street.  And therefore the NACTA poll which gives them an approval rating of 5% paints a realistic picture of their chances in the 2011 elections.
In relation to the APNU, the poll confirmed that which was already known, a resounding defeat for the APNU, with Granger as its head and his accompanying baggage of being part of the PNC‘s dictatorship which catapulted     Guyana into a chasm of criminality, underdevelopment and poverty.
His modus operandi is well known; however, for one to get an understanding of the kind of leader Granger is, one event stands out.
The launching of the APNU was held on Granger’s birthday. This seems by no means coincidental given that Forbes Burnham, Granger’s mentor, was accused of doing the same thing in relation to our Republic Day celebrations. Perhaps this is precisely the autocratic, personalized style of leadership that Granger has assumed in the APNU but Guyana does not need it again.
This situation leaves me as a voter one choice and only one choice, the people’s choice, i.e. the People’s Progressive Party.