THE true test of character is when you can walk into an arena, knowing that the arena belongs to your opponent but you say to yourself you are made of stern stuff and you can go into his space and take him on. When a politician has that temperament, then he/she has leadership qualities.
Now and until their last day on earth, Vincent Alexander, Vincent Adams, Amanza Walton-Desir, GHK Lall, Sheron Duncan, and dozens of their ilk are not going into a space that is not controlled by their sycophants. This is because they want their sycophants to shepherd them, to hide their irredeemable shortcomings and to gloss over their congenital flaws.
So what do they do? They chat with their friends, and together they hide their hideous, hidden agenda, and the role of their friends is to assist them in their attempts to fool African Guyanese. We start with the Herculean political dirtiness of Vincent Alexander. He told David Hinds, whose smile was an acknowledgement that he knows Alexander was fooling people, that the 2025 elections did not break with ethnic voting on the part of Afro-Guyanese and Guyanese Indians.
Here is the political miasma of Alexander; and I keep insisting to all Guyanese that they must reply to these putrid deceptions if those responses rescue just one mind. Alexander said that Indians voted for the PPP and African Guyanese did not vote for the PPP, thus maintaining ethnic voting.
Alexander was hiding the oceanic revelation of the 2025 elections that has placed it in a prominent place in Guyana’s historiography. Alexander was hiding one of the most phenomenal political earthquakes to have shaken Guyana. An Indian party headed by a wealthy Indian Muslim man with no visible secon- in-charge and with his sister as the de facto deputy leader, secured 109,066 votes, almost 90 percent of which came from African Guyanese.
Here are the places where this Indian man got African votes. In Region 10, which is almost coterminous with Linden, the Indian leader of WIN got 10,458 votes. The PPP got 4,260,with an increase of 1,260 votes from the 2020 elections. Two Indian men, Dr Irfaan Ali and Azruddin Mohamed, got together 14,718 votes out of 21,009 voters, giving them together 80 percent of the votes in a district of Guyana where the ethnic make-up is 98 percent African.
Yet Vincent Alexander watched his viewers in their faces and told them that there was no cross-racial voting in 2025. Can you have any respect for this gentleman and David Hinds, who kept nodding in the affirmative as Alexander spouted his putrid deceptions? Let’s expose Alexander further.
Eight leaders headed into the 2025 elections. Two were Indians – Irfaan Ali and Azruddin Mohamed. Six were Africans. They were Aubrey Norton, Amanza Walton-Desir, Nigel Hughes, Nigel London, Simona Broomes, and Dorwin Best. Only one African leader made it outright to parliament – Aubrey Norton. The other successful candidate, Walton-Desir, secured a seat only through top-up votes.
In a country of 29 percent African and 30 percent Indian, the two Indian leaders got 80.1 percent of the total votes cast of 438,467. Yet Alexander said there was no cross-racial voting. But let’s rubbish the politics of Alexander further. In Region Four in 2020, APNU+AFC got 117,000 votes. You have to be more unintelligent than a donkey to assume that there was a serious amount of votes in that 117,000 that was from East Indians.
In 2025, the PNC got 47, 000 votes in Region Four. Is Vincent Alexander telling Guyanese that the PNC’s loss of 69,000 votes was not African votes? But where did those 69,000 votes go? Here is where one hopes that African Guyanese meet Alexander and tell him that he needs to have more respect for African Guyanese.
In 2020, the PPP’s Region Four votes were 81,000. In 2025, the PPP got 87,500. In 2020, there was no Azruddin Mohamed. In 2025, Mohamed got in Region Four, a whopping sum of 41,607. Is Alexander telling Guyanese that the 7000 votes the PPP got in Region Four in 2025 and Mohamed’s 41,607 were not African votes?
Vincent Adams of the AFC told David Hinds that in Linden, the crowds smothered Mohamed as he walked about. Adams said women in their nightgowns ran out to meet Mohamed and shouted out loudly that he was their new president. But surely, they had to know that that man they were seeing was an Indian man and he was running against an African man born in Linden – Aubrey Norton. So why did Alexander lie to African Guyanese? Because he is afraid to admit cross-racial voting will kill off the PNC in 2030.
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