“VANESSA Kissoon should have seen it coming”, said former A Partnership For National Unity (APNU) and now People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) member, Africo Selman, yesterday, during an interview with the Guyana Chronicle.According to the PPP/C newcomer, APNU’s plan to leave Kissoon off of their list of candidates has been in the making and she should have known that she would not have been put back on the list. “Kissoon is quite a unique case, in that she has had several encounters with the leadership of APNU,” she said.

She added that the former APNU member has had many encounters with APNU Executive member Amna Ally and Oscar Clarke, who both have power in the APNU administration.
Selman also recollected that Kissoon had come under attack by APNU because she chose to support Greenidge when he ran for the position of leader of the People’s National Congress (PNC) – “since then they have been nitpicking on her,” said Selman.
According to the PPP/C member, evidence of the attacks on Kissoon appeared when she was demoted from the front bench to the back bench in the National Assembly.
GRANGER’S EXCUSE
A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) presidential candidate, David Granger disclosed on Nomination Day, April 7 at City Hall, that “yes, she was left out of the list, as we have a balanced list…She served two terms…We have a list of criteria and that criteria was applied because of the work that is ahead of us.”
In a response to that answer, Selman lamented that the “two terms” silly excuse that Granger gave is an attack on Guyanese intelligence, as he believes that Guyanese are not politically conscious.
She referred to the other APNU+AFC members who served more than two terms, such as Amna Ally, Basil Williams, Aubrey Norton, Raphael Trotman, Khemraj Ramjattan and others, noting that she is happy to be out of that administration, because of so much hypocrisy and double standards within APNU.
PARTY OF REVENGE
That apart, Selman also emphasised the fact that APNU is all about revenge, even in their attacks on the Government. “For example, when His Excellency extended an olive branch to APNU by proroguing the parliament, they refused to meet with him because they said they cannot trust the Government.”
Instead, she stated that they should have grasped at the President’s olive branch and meet with him to see how they could have broken the deadlock and move Guyana forward.