Dear Editor
MANZOOR Nadir is trying hard to redeem himself from the political backwaters of his party, the PPP/C, to which he crawled on his knees for a ministerial portfolio.

This was shockingly opportunistic, since to achieve his patently selfish end, he mortgaged the United Force(UF), the party which had been founded by the late magnate and former Minister of Finance Peter D’Aguiar and which had in its ranks honourable gentlemen such as the revered Stephen Campbell, the first Amerindian Member of Parliament; Randolph Cheeks, a former Local Government Minister; Mohammed Kassim, also a former cabinet minister; Marcellus Feilden Singh, a former leader and parliamentarian; and the respected leader, the late Eleanor Da Silva, among others.

The above-named were all genuine UF members who were principled in whatever cause they had to represent. These were the great UF party leaders that Nadir shamefully betrayed when he destroyed their party for a ministerial portfolio. Strange what the craving for political power does to some humans!

Now, through Freedom Radio, he is making feeble but misleading noises about his ever since adopted political outfit, the PPP/C, having to perform the function of voter education which the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) should be carrying out. This is another piece of cheap party propaganda, as are his other accusations against the national electoral body, not worthy of being repeated here. Editor, this is the continuation of the PPP/C’s orchestrated attacks to degrade the national electoral body, for reasons which have already been made known.

Voter education by GECOM got underway ever since; for I have seen materials being distributed in my constituency and others that are contiguous. In fact, at a press briefing some days ago, the electoral body’s PRO announced that voter materials have been given to returning officers who have been executing their own awareness programmes in the respective communities. Thus, this is another red herring by the PPP/C.

Editor, as far as is known, there is nothing which prohibits any political party contesting the Local Government Elections, from giving such guidance to their constituencies. It is a welcomed, as well as a sensible move. But that would not detract/prevent GECOM’s mandate to discharge its function, which it is doing; or as Nadir infers that the latter is not being done. That is the deceptive understanding that Nadir is attempting to convey.

Regards
Dillon Goring