IF a political leader is going to post the column of a political analyst on his Facebook page, I think all, not most, but all his readers would expect a reason for the posting and comments to follow.

Terrence Campbell posted my piece for Tuesday (last) titled, “The Guyanese people must demand this of Terrence Campbell.” In that commentary I simply asked the Guyanese people to put a demand on Campbell to explain his perspective on handshaking with the President. Does he accept it as one of civilisation’s courtesies or he will not shake the president’s hand as is the policy of his leader, Aubrey Norton.

In his comments, Campbell could have done and should have done one of three things. First, inform his followers that he is not interested in anything Kissoon has to ask him. Or say that he has no comment to make at this time. Or give his perspective. Here is what Campbell did. He wrote above my column, the following words: “Terrence Campbell is feeling amused.  Shaking hands. Will Terrence Campbell shake hands or not. Lol.”

There is only one word to be used to describe Campbell’s response – comical.  The PNC was guillotined in the 2025 general election. The embarrassment and humiliation were deeply ignominious, and one would have thought that the political nincompoops that currently have taken over the PNC’s leadership would have at least try to redeem themselves and show its voters that it is going in a brand-new direction. To most people that is commonsensical thinking.

The PNC was devastated in the last election because its leadership lacks the knowledge of what really constitutes the essence of people.  Traditional PNC voters and newcomers on the electoral role who see themselves as African Guyanese that want to embrace the PNC have seen nothing from the PNC since 2020 that encourages them to stick with the PNC.

What is one of the substances of people? Humans who are not possessed of greatness and high education and embody vast talent, look up to the country’s leaders for knowledge. These folks know they haven’t got the type of gravitas that compels society to recognize them so they look up to religious people, politicians, business folks, security officers, teachers, writers, artists, sports heroes to find the meaning of things in life.

That explains why autobiographies attract people. Ordinary humans want to hear, read and listen to what Brian Lara, Sachin Tendular, Chris Gayle, Usain Bolt, Sharukh Khan, Christiano Ronaldo, President Ali, Mia Mottley, Denzil Washington   and others like them have to say. They want to take a leaf out of the books of these internationally acclaimed humans. And the reason is because they admire them and believe what they have to say they can learn from.

The point is people look up to leaders to learn from. The PNC fell into disgrace in the 2025 election because their leaders from 2020 insulted the innate decency of their supporters. They offered absolutely nothing to these people but instead dished out a daily menu of emanations that African Guyanese at the basic level of understanding knew was fictional, infantile, unbecoming, visionless but more importantly insulting to the human spirit.

Every day it was the same embarrassing stuff from Aubrey Norton, David Hinds, Norman Brown, Rickford Burke, Mark Benschop and their comrades. There was no departure from the daily menu. Aubrey Norton was completely ignorant of the religious evolution of the African race. African Guyanese are a deeply religious race. Christian churches are ubiquitous in Guyana. In some African villages, like Ann’s Grove, there are more churches per capita than any other country in the world.

Aubrey Norton and Sharma Solomon were completely ignorant of how foolish the nation of Guyana saw them when they refused to shake the hands of the President. African Guyanese were disgusted with Terrence Campbell and Nigel Hughes when they showed understanding for the people who tried to burn down Guyana on April 28 after the Adriana Younge postmortem was made public. But the lowest point in the deluge of insults of African Guyanese by their leaders was David Hinds who applauded the scrape heads that were marauding on April 28, burning, looting and beating up people.

African Guyanese rejected the PNC in 2025 because they knew the PNC was lying to them about the 2020 election rigging and they were disgusted at Aubrey Norton’s childish drama about his 2020 statements of poll which he never showed them. African Guyanese chose the PPP and WIN over the PNC in 2025. But the PNC leaders will never learn.

Just read Campbell’s Facebook comments on my column and you will see what African Guyanese knew since 2020 –PNC leaders are simply wrong people with nothing sensible to tell them.

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