HERE is the list of the anti-PPP bandwagon, apart from the mainstream opposition parties, whose constant banging was not random, episodic, weekly, or monthly but was a matutinal and nocturnal sermon that literally bombarded the nation.
1-The Stabroek News
2-The Kaieteur News
3-Oil and Gas Governance Network (OGGGN)
4-The Village Voice
5-Red Thread
6-Guyana Human Rights Association
7-Transparency Guyana Chapter
8-SASOD
9-In The Diaspora column
10-The TUC
11-Policy Forum
12-Henry Jeffrey
13-Chris Ram
14-David Hinds
15-Rickford Burke
16-GHK Lall
17-Tacuma Ogunseye
18-Janet Bulkan
19-Eusi Kwayana
20-Mark Benschop
21-Nigel Westmaas
22-Guyana Press Association
23-Travis Chase
24-Kian Jabour
25-Timothy Jonas
26-Vanda and Danuta Radzik
27-Melinda Janki
I could go on. These individuals, groups and organisations were constantly banging away at the government with relentless zeal and nuclear energy. The banging started in September 2020, the month after President Ali was inaugurated. The occasion was the murder of two cousins in Cotton Tree, which the Guyana Human Rights Association milked insanely to create national instability.
From Cotton Tree in September 2020, the banging went on daily and nightly until it reached its apogee on April 28 this year, when the Adrianna Younge post-mortem was used by all of the names listed above to weaken the government.  The afternoon and night of April 28 saw the unleashing by WIN, PNC, AFC and their surrogates of hundreds of scrapeheads in Regions Three, Four, and Five to create instability.
Let us look at some of the roads used by the anti-PPP bandwagon.
1-The fossil fuel industry is destructive and will create a disaster for Guyana and Guyanese must push the government out of the industry.
2-The new Booker in Guyana is EXXON, and Guyanese must force the government to force EXXON to renegotiate the contract.
3-There is widespread poverty in Guyana and class struggle will intensify because oil money is not reaching the ordinary folks.
4-There is a creeping apartheid in Guyana. There is expansive and expanding discrimination against African Guyanese.
5-The Guyana Government is an undemocratic administration that tolerates corruption.
6-The cost of living is harsh and is hurting low-income people.
Because of space constraints I have listed six areas of constant banging. This bandwagon rode the roadways of Guyana for five consecutive years sermonizing day in and day out. If a person came from another planet and examined this constant banging, then they would be confused as to how the incumbent party survived the 2025 election muchless retained power.
The political analyst has to provide an interpretation of why this constant banging was a miserable, ignominious failure. This was five years of heavy hitting. Stabroek News and Kaieteur News became insanely hostile to the government and maintained their unhealthy balance for five years. The Oil and Gas Governance Network and the anti-oil lobby attempted to scare Guyanese by painting the Guyana Government as a sycophant of Exxon. Several overbearing court cases were filed against the government by The Usual Suspects (TUS).
The racist platform of The Lunatic Fringe (TLF) went into the most uncivilised directions ever seen in a CARICOM state. Unbridled racism was unleashed in Guyana and directed against the ruling party with a political viciousness never before seen in this country.  TUS, TLF and the Mulatto/Creole Class (MCC) became more hostile to the ruling party than the mainstream opposition. If a person from another planet came to Guyana and read the Stabroek News and the Kaieteur News, they would have thought that they were the newspapers of the opposition parties.
Space constraints will prevent an elaboration as to why the anti-PPP bandwagon and the mainstream opposition failed to weaken the popular hold of the ruling party on the Guyanese electorate. Different explanations are to be found in different organisations and individuals listed here. I have to be brief.
The Guyanese people were and are not gullible. First, they did not find the opposition a credible alternative to the government. The Guyanese people rejected the tolerance for racism, violence, and rigged elections that the mainstream opposition parties embraced.
Secondly, Guyanese saw the OGGN as a bunch of expatriate Guyanese long gone from Guyana that contribute absolutely nothing to Guyana. People were literally disgusted with the likes of David Hinds, Rickford Burke and company and saw them as symptomatic of the decline of the opposition and rejected them.
The anti-oil lobby, which came from the MCC, was seen as pampered middle-class elites that were parroting the anti-oil narrative of Western countries that became rich from the very fossil fuel industry they are now condemning in Guyana. Finally, when taken together – both the constant bangers and the mainstream opposition – were seen by the Guyanese people as flawed and hypocritical folks too obsessed with the government and lacking in credibility.
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