…says when he is angry he uses profanity

OPPOSITION Leader, Bahrrat Jagdeo, on Thursday, admitted to lewd behaviour when he apologised for exposing the public to his expletive-laced comments, on Monday, in which he stated that Jamaican cricketer, Chris Gayle was in his “*&%$# bad books”.

“I’m really sorry that the public had to hear what took place in a private setting,” Jagdeo said, on Thursday, during a press conference hosted at the Office of the Leader of the Opposition.

He made the expletive-laced remarks amidst rage that Gayle had appeared at a People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) rally in Linden last Saturday. It was revealed in a leaked tape which surfaced on Monday evening.

Jagdeo has denied the word on the street that he was enraged because he had wanted Gayle to appear at a Progressive Youth Organisation (PYO) event on the same day, but the Jamaican opted for the Linden outing with the PNCR. On the tape, Jagdeo is heard threatening to place someone in his “Bad Books”.

“Tell him that you just get in fu—-g Jagdeo bad books; he just cussing your sk–t here,” Jagdeo was heard telling two men on the tape as they discussed Tyrell Tull, a former Guyanese cricketer who was seen with Gayle in Linden.

The West Indies batting star on Tuesday issued a statement saying he was apolitical, while social media commentators expressed that the tape exposes Jagdeo for who he really is.

However, on Thursday, even while apologising for his remarks, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary sought to turn the blame back on the PNCR. “The tape proves that – and let me say to people – I do get angry and – let me say to them again – when I get angry sometimes I use expletives and I am sorry that people had to be exposed to that because APNU illegally recorded this and they circulated it. It was done in a private setting. So I’m really sorry that the public had to hear what took place in a private setting,” he said.

He sought to assure the public that in private settings he does not push racism or do anything that divides the country’s peoples or harms the country’s interest.

However, he also claimed that Gayle was unaware that he was heading to Linden for the political meeting but reporters called the political leader out on making the 40-year-old man seem like “a child being led astray”.

Nonetheless, Jagdeo continued to justify his anger in the situation.

“I’m sorry people had to hear that because it was in a private setting,” he said.

“I was angry because 1) the people of Guyana would believe somehow that Chris Gayle would endorse APNU and I know Chris Gayle would not endorse any party in this country….so when people said to me ‘he’s a great friend’ and stuff I used these expletives that they are in my bad book.”

He got emotional down to the end of the interview when reporters were not satisfied with the justification given as to why he would be so concerned with the conscious actions of a cricketer.

Asked what it means to be in Jagdeo’s “bad book”, the PPP politician said: “some of these individuals I know them and so they call me from time to time to talk to me etcetera that means that privilege is gone.”