A  Partnership for National Unity (APNU) has a responsibility, bound by the Code of Conduct, to rein in the African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) and to ensure that it ceases any type of campaigning,  which is injurious and which is in violation of the code. PPP/C Executive member, Clement Rohee, noted that several ACDA representatives, including Elton Mc Rae and Brian Bacchus,  while campaigning on behalf of APNU, have been spouting emotive, racially biased and inflammatory language of an ethnic nature, during several meetings held in mainly Afro-Guyanese villages.
He said, “The rhetoric is also highly racial and they (ACDA) keep making the point that if APNU were to lose the elections, Guyanese must be prepared to mobilise to struggle for electoral and constitutional reforms; in other words, if the PPP/C were elected to office, they are prepared to launch into  extra parliamentary struggles.”
Rohee emphasised that this type of behaviour goes towards promoting racial hostility in Guyana and will not be tolerated by the PPP/C or the citizens of Guyana.
“I think it is important for the Guyanese populace to note that the ACDA is a handmaiden of APNU and if the code of conduct speaks about spouting this type of rhetoric, and openly promoting racial hostility in the country, then APNU must rein in ACDA, because ACDA is campaigning for the APNU and everything that the speakers say is contrary to the letter and spirit of the code of conduct,” he stressed.
He reminded that, while ACDA may not be a signatory to the Code of Conduct, APNU has a responsibility, bound by the code of conduct to “rein in” the entity, which has publicly stated that it is campaigning for the APNU.
“They (ACDA) are tied hand in glove with the APNU…I am stressing that the APNU has a responsibility, bound by the code of conduct to ensure that they cease this type of campaigning, which is injurious and violates  the letter and the spirit of the code of conduct,” Rohee stated.