“IT is time for the A Partnership For National Unity and Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) coalition to stop pointing fingers against our youths and take a page out of the leaf of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) on how to treat with our young people,” said the PPP/C’s General Secretary (GS) at the party’s weekly press conference on Monday.

This comes after the PPP/C took note of the attacks being levelled against those young professionals who have identified themselves with the PPP/C and have consented to appear on the list of candidates of the incumbent party.
According to Rohee, “these attacks are demonstrative once again of the vicious and vindictive nature of the APNU+AFC coalition against our young people who dare to stand up and be counted in support of a party and a cause to which they believed in and for which they are willing to contribute towards.”
He highlighted the fact that it is baffling if not mind-boggling that the coalition party which speaks so much about the need for young people to get involved in the political life of the country, would now cast aspersions and ambiguities against the very cohort of people whom they falsely claim to be so concerned about.
The PPP/C’s GS also stated that, the fact that some of the young people happen to be close relatives of members and supporters of the ruling PPP/C administration cannot diminish nor in any way inhibit their involvement in the national discourse for a better and more secure Guyana.
APNU+AFC’S JEALOUSY
Meanwhile, that apart, Rohee hinted that the APNU+AFC coalition has now sunk to a new low by taking cheap shots at some of our young and bright minds, and this could only be seen as politically infantile and smacks of a fair measure of jealousy.
“The PPP/C has never and will never object to young people wishing to identify with one or the other political party regardless of family or organisational ties, and therefore sees no reason why the Opposition parties should so do; therefore, the question is, could it be that they are unable to come to terms with the influx of young people into the PPP/C family and are therefore consumed by uncontrolled jealousy?” queried the party’s GS.
He declared that the PPP/C condemns these vicious and unwarranted attacks on those young people who have come forward on its platform and will not sit idly by and allow them to be treated as second-class citizens because of their family backgrounds or association with organisations or individuals who are sympathetic to or supportive of the party.
And these are young people who have not emerged out of thin air, but have been integrally and actively involved in the work of the party and Government and who have demonstrated high levels of commitment and competence in the execution of whatever assignment they were required to execute.