Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall, on Friday night, told a massive crowd at Stabroek Market Square that the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) is rewriting Guyana’s political map by breaking traditional voting barriers and winning support in communities that once turned their backs on the party.
Nandlall described this shift as a new political awakening that has cut across race and geography, driven by the transformational policies and programmes delivered over the last five years.
“The message that you are sending here is being looked at by all the international observers who are in Guyana,” Nandlall declared.
“They said that we will not win the election. Then they said they will reduce us to a minority government. Now they are saying they will not accept the results. But your presence here, your energy here, will assure the international observers and the world that we will win.”
The Attorney General turned candidate drew a sharp contrast between the PPP/C’s track record and what he described as the opposition’s manipulation and failure.
He pointed to flagship initiatives such as the distribution of 52,000 house lots and the GOAL scholarship programme, which has already enrolled more than 40,000 Guyanese.
“When I watch this crowd here, when I watch this energy, when I watch this enthusiasm, when I watch this zeal, when I watch this determination,” Nandlall said, “I know that we are unstoppable.”
Opposition Has “No Track Record”
In a fiery broadside, Nandlall took aim at A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the newly formed We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) led by US-sanctioned businessman Azzurdin Mohamed, dismissing both as racially divisive and visionless.
“The only reason why they are alive is because of race,” he charged. “They know they have no track record to stand on. They have no accomplishment to stand on. They have no project to which they can point. They have nothing.”
Nandlall also stressed that the PPP/C has successfully reconnected with communities across Guyana, many of which the opposition once claimed as strongholds.
“We have been able to walk all the communities of Guyana, communities that you were never able to enter. When we enter those communities, they embraced us with love,” he said.