Dear Editor
IN mid-2016, a very close friend told me that the 2020 national and regional elections would be viciously fought by the PPP/C, since that party would be prepared to resort to any and every means to regain power. He pointed to the discovery of oil, and the incentive that such a new economic goldmine would give to any political party such as the PPP/C, with its already established and known culture of state kleptocracy, for any means to reclaim power. Such a view had already been substantiated by many social commentators, and one will remember the now subsequent statement by Minister of Finance Winston Jordan, who alluded to it as the ‘’mother of all elections’’.

Of course, at that time such a prediction was easy to DISCERN, as the PPP/C had already commenced its destabilisation campaign against the coalition, A Partnership for National Unity+ Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) government. But it was my friend’s subsequent statement about the PPP/C party having tens of billions of dollars within its constituencies, which they will use to buy votes, seeking to subvert the electoral process through any means, even it means fomenting social tension. I never forgot this information, which indeed has been accurate to the letter.

The committing of the greatest act of political treachery in the annals of the nation’s parliamentary history was never about a conscience vote as the offender was attempting to have the nation believe.

Though the evidence at that very dark time was not yet known, except to those within the closest confines of the inner CIRCLE OF THE Robb Street political cabal, it was evident that the MP was coerced. Recent details confirmed this suspicion, with even the name of the PPP/C member who, it was reported, made the transaction.

It is evident that the PPP/C has fought a very dirty political war against the coalition government, inclusive of a filthy election campaign which was a departure from ISSUES. It was never going to be about PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNANCE, ABOUT THE ECONOMY which in any traditional campaign on issues, the PPP/C could not have won. So they resorted to what they have always been known to do best, with the full support of its pro-media; its political arm of the PSC, as well as with its section of the Guyana Bar Asociation, and of course, with the approval of some once voices of conscience, as well as with the silent, but finally revealed support of some hypocrites, who have finally let us know that there is no better place than home, rather than the moral house of good principle in which ALL can live and advance the cause of national unity.

Regards
Earl Hamilton