IN the closing rounds of a well regulated boxing match, a losing pugilist who is outwitted and outfoxed by a better opponent, is left with little or no choice but to throw in everything he has to salvage his credibility as a worthy opponent. This is exactly where the PNC/AFC finds itself as we approach the May elections. Politically concussed, historically discredited, elusive, duplicitous, dysfunctional and vacuous, the PNC/AFC cannot win a fair contest with the PPP.

So what do they? That is when the dirty tricks campaign come in. They and their acolytes have to minimise and degrade the achievements of the PPP by increasing the fears of Guyanese and spewing the language of foment. David Granger recently said that he was convinced that the Crum-Ewing’s death was the result of the actions of the “rulers of darkness”.

Guyanese, however, are astute enough to see through the ‘hocus pocus’ of their arguments. They are also well aware of the machinations by the PNC and its drone, the AFC, to belittle the PPP ad infinitum for restoring and sustaining the country’s democratic credentials including freedom of the press and for commissioning the International Commission of Inquiry into the death of Walter Rodney which is revealing the dark elements within the PNC’s DNA; for its economic and social regeneration of the country and empowerment of its people; for making Guyana rightfully regain its proper place from the pariah status it found itself during the doldrums of the PNC paramountcy and quasi-military years and for giving it the right to punch its weight regionally and internationally. The list goes on.

That is why in the upcoming May elections, Guyanese will have the choice whether they wish to vote for the party that continues to offer them the freedom, economic, social and political gains they have made since 1992 or to vote for a party that obfuscates the real issues and will return Guyana to the days of uncertainty and political instability.

DEO SINGH