–Jagdeo says

GENERAL Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo stated on Thursday that the Opposition, APNU (A Partnership for National Unity), has continued to incite fear in residents of Georgetown as part of its campaign for the upcoming Local Government Elections (LGEs).

He made this remark during his weekly press conference, where he said that the PPP/C, during its campaign, will continue to highlight its policies, and provide voters with relevant information.
“They will hear all of the rumours that APNU continues to spread, like in the city APNU told the people in ‘Front Road’, in East and West Ruimveldt, that should the PPP win Georgetown, we would remove all those squatters there on Front Road, inciting fear among the people. But this is typical of APNU,” he said.

He made it clear that such a course of action is untrue, before pointing out that the PPP/C government has not done the “heavy-handed” removal of people, but has instead regularised squatters.

He went on to say that there has been no talk about removing persons, which is the only thing that the Opposition has to say.

“This is what APNU has been doing; they have done that with the vendors, and we had to address that issue also with the vendors. So, it’s a lot of fear-mongering among people,” he said.

Noting that the Opposition has nothing positive to campaign on, Dr. Jagdeo said:

“They’re worried about an exodus; and that is going to happen, because the moment people start working with this party, they will see that we stand for progress, and so they are fearful of that.”

He went on to note that his party has, over the last few days, been laying out to the people what they are campaigning on.

He insisted that party officials will visit every home to share those plans.