RONALD Daniels, an APNU 2025 elections candidate, and Nigel London, another elections candidate but for a different political party, the People’s Movement, and a preacher in Linden, on different occasions last week made statements about the President’s mother. One of these men, based on the supposed acceptance of the legal training that he got, should know how to assess wild allegations not based on evidence.

The other, a preacher who appeals to God to protect his flock ought to know that God frowns on people who do bad things. London carried on in a podcast about allegations a man named Junior Baksh said about the President’s mother. Daniels in a Facebook post carried on just like London.

London and Daniels in seeking to tarnish the President’s mother did not mention two things. One is that Baksh is extremely close to Azruddin Mohamed and that Travis Chase is alleged to be close to Mohamed too and so you have to take what both said with a grain of salt. Both men could be helping Azruddin’s political cause.

Secondly, for all his labyrinthine connections in the gold industry and all the formidable secrets he has, Baksh’s adumbration is simply a mouthing off. There isn’t at least one taped conversation from Baksh that implicates any Cabinet minister.

So why did London and Daniels not show even an ounce of respect toward the President’s mother? Because they are in electoral politics and no line is sacred that it cannot be crossed.

London says he is a preacher and when you read Daniels’ Facebook offering, he comes across as a person who finds solace in the Bible. So, both men seek direction in their lives from God.

I really don’t know if London and Daniels are getting the right heavenly direction. I saw a social media programme in which London told the custodian of the Mulatto/Creole culture in Guyana, Nigel Westmaas that the neocolonial powers intervened in the March 2020 elections to put the PPP/C in power. London is yet to explain the logistics of the intervention to his parishioners (assuming he has such people) and the electorate that he is appealing to.

Daniels is an admirer of Forbes Burnham. One wonders if Daniels knows that in the 2025 elections he is participating in, had Burnham been alive, there would have been no elections because Burnham simply did not believe in free and fair elections. The story of Daniels and London is the tale of the long journey into disintegration by the opposition.

To win votes, Daniels and London have stooped low. They have brought the President’s mother into their game. But whose votes can you win by stooping so low? One element lacking in the election strategy of the opposition parties is their persuading appeal to PPP/C voters.

Can you win votes other than the ones your supporters gave to you by bringing in an innocent family member of the President into your masquerade? London’s party has subsumed itself under the umbrella of Amanza Walton-Desir. She is a woman. The President’s mother is a woman. Does Mrs. Walton-Desir feel what her political colleague did should carry an apology?

Then there is the new kid on the block – Terrence Campbell. Two of his APNU colleagues have brought the President’s mother into their propaganda miasma. Sherod Duncan put up a Facebook post in which he made reference to the President’s mother.

Campbell did not waste any time in denouncing Leonard Craig for a few questionable remarks that Campbell felt were vulgar. Two of his APNU colleagues have gone billions of miles ahead of the indiscretion of Craig but no word from him so far. I know this country. Walton-Desir will not apologise for London. Aubrey Norton and Terrence Campbell will not apologise for Daniels and Duncan.

I wrote in my Saturday piece that we will not get a reaction from Stabroek News and Christopher Ram. Well, Ram spoke the next day (Sunday). He found Baksh’s revelation acceptable and praised a blatant opposition journalist, Travis Chase. This is Guyana where those who criticise the government of the day are far, far, far worse than members of the government.

And the voters are no fools. They will listen and look at the crass things that are being said and they will reject those who do not belong to political decent competition and should not be in politics. Duncan, Daniels and London think that Guyanese do not know what Baksh and Travis Chase were up to. And who are Baksh and Chase? Who says London, Duncan and Daniels don’t know the person in politics Baksh and Chase are connected to? Irfaan Ali is a morally superior being and will win on September 1.

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