COMPARING leader of the A Partnership for National Unity and Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) Alliance, David Granger with a sign post of danger, People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) General Secretary, Clement Rohee last evening urged Albouystown residents to vote solidly for the ruling party.Before Rohee took to the podium, former World Boxing Champion Andrew “Six-Head” Lewis, who was at the meeting, told the Guyana Chronicle that he endorses the PPP, and has joined the party to “knock out the coalition”.
He said the PPP/C is a people-oriented party, disclosing that it has always been for him, and he will never turn his back on the ruling administration.
The PPP/C, he said, was there for him when he won the World Championship, supporting him as a poor youth from Albouystown, hungry for success in a clean way, and he would encourage the underprivileged to vote for the Cup on May 11.
Lewis said he is not too familiar with the leaders of the Alliance, and said from all indications; they appear to be opportunists and not suitable people to lead the country.
Addressing the gathering, Rohee said Guyanese should not allow the APNU+AFC coalition to ‘pull wool’ over their eyes and roll back development, contending that the coalition is nothing more than confusion.
The APNU+AFC meeting at Warlock, East Ruimveldt, Georgetown yesterday was called off, and when this newspaper visited the area, residents said they were unaware of any meeting.
Over at Albouystown, another corner in the city, the PPP/C General Secretary said there have been calls by the Opposition for change, but pointed out that the “PPP is the change”.
He said when the ruling party assumed power in 1992, it inherited a nation in hopelessness; the PPP/C erased the denigrated image by investing heavily in education, health and infrastructure, not only changing the tide, but positioning the country on the path to prosperity.
The change the Opposition is talking about, he said, is puzzling, and can only be construed as “changing Guyana from good to bad”.
“This must not happen,” he said, telling the gathering that they should not subject themselves to be guinea pigs for experiment, noting that the People’s National Congress, now the controller of the coalition, the A Partnership for National Unity, was in government and they wrecked the country.
“They must not do it again,” he urged, proclaiming that a vote for the PPP, which is a vote for the continuation of development, progress and prosperity.
He said the leaders of the Alliance have failed to recognise the “tremendous” change in the country, but it should not be seen as a surprise as they are “desperados” and the situation with Alliance For Change Executive Moses Nagamootoo is obvious.
Nagamootoo, he said, has too many zeros in his name, and like the APNU and AFC, any good thing that will take the country forward, and improve the well-being of the citizenry, they see it as a ‘zero-some’ approach.
Rohee said they want the populace to forget their sordid past, of what they did in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, by trying to do everything to camouflage themselves, but he said their masks will be removed.
“No pedicure, bodicure or footicure” can change them, he said, saying that the people do not want to see a reversal in development, they want it to continue.
Former Guyana Trade Union Congress (GTUC) Jillian Burton said there has been significant development under the PPP/C Government, telling the gathering that today soap, toothpaste, telephone and certain foods are no longer luxury items.
She said more women have been empowered, and the standard of living of all Guyanese continues to rise.
“The people know wolves in sheep’s clothing,” Burton said, and like PPP/C Member of Parliament, Reverend Kwame Gilbert, she urged the Albouystown residents and Guyanese in general to vote with their conscience, and vote for the PPP/C to remain in Government so that progress can continue.

By Tajeram Mohabir