The APNU+AFC and their media operatives have identified eight (8) persons out of the list of some 150 national and geographic candidatesas being family members of “past and present”senior PPP officials. Illogically, the APNU+AFC and their media operatives expect the public to accept their spurious view that the offspring of the PPP should never get involved in the political struggle for national development.The illogicality of the view is definitive by analogy since it would mean that the child of a senior officer in a business/company would never be able to work in that business/company. The reality is quite the opposite: most parents who own businesses have at least some degree of expectation of their children assisting in that business.

Further, upon closer examination of the identified persons would reveal that the identified persons are young qualified professionals e.g.Ranvir Gajraj – a medical doctor; Thandi Luncheon – a medical doctor, Charles Ramson – an Attorney at Law; RabindranauthChandarpaul – an Engineer.

Also if it was the case of nepotism then why would the national top up and geographic list of some 150 plus persons contain only these eight children of past and present senior officials of the PPP? Are they trying to also say that all the PPP past and present leadership has only been able to produce eight children over the course of some 65 years of existence?

The  accusationof the PPP/C nepotism is a red herring in an attempt to deflect questions from the APNU+AFC list of candidates which contains some persons of a criminal nature some of whom have been arrested and charged and brought before the criminal courts or whom have had court orders against them for libel.

It is also a red herring in an attempt to deflect from the fact that the APNU+AFC list does not represent the youth and future that is claimed to be their platform for this 2015 election. Almost 50% of the PPP/C’s list of candidates are under the age of 45 and over 25% are under the age of 35.

BY CHARLES RAMSON