LETTER writer Emile Mervyn has been encouraging readers to revisit Carl B. Greenidge’s letter, ‘AFC proposal to lead a pro-democracy alliance will test the negotiating skills of the Opposition leadership’, (SN, December 8, 2014). 

Mervin says that somehow he believes that if Greenidge was APNU’s leader, such negotiating skills would have surfaced, but time will unveil whether we have Opposition leaders who can negotiate and navigate NOW.
But I would like to say to Emile that the problem with APNU lies directly with the Leader of the party! He’s the weakest person to ever lead the PNC/APNU party, and as you know, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
If APNU will ever reach political glory in this country there has to be a dramatic change in the way that party runs its affairs. Further, they must create an outlook to the populace that will be attractive to the Indo-Guyanese. This party, I’m afraid to say, still practices and preaches the politics under the Burnham tag line. There is still widespread belief that they also condone much of the violence that is prevalent in our country. Having said that, my question to you is as follows:- If there is someone (Greenidge) in the APNU camp who is gifted with the negotiating skills you pen about, why is he or she not the leader of the APNU? If then, Greenidge or someone does have better leadership qualities than the current Leader of APNU, how then could a mistake like Granger happen? If you can’t get the affairs of your party in order, why should confidence be placed in them to lead the national interest of this country?

JUSTIN WILTSHIRE