AMANZA Walton-Desir (AWD) is hardly going to get votes. Nigel Hughes is going to be electorally embarrassed.
Aubrey Norton is facing electoral annihilation. In all three of these circumstances, the causal factor is Azruddin Mohamed. He will get the votes destined for these names mentioned above.
How did Mohamed, a non-entity in politics and a political nincompoop outplay Aubrey Norton, one of Guyana’s most experienced politicians with more than 40 years of experience? It began with the predatory instincts of Mohamed.

He knew that the opposition and its racist surrogates in and out of Guyana were using the Adriana Younge tragedy for political mileage.
Like a keen hunter, Mohamed stalked his prey. He jumped right into the fray and began to provide resources to the PNC, AFC and Younge family members. It started with Adriana’ mother. She

publicly said that Mohamed gave her US$6,000 for a third pathologist and she gave the money to PNC lawyer, Darren Wade.
I don’t know if that is true but the dead girl’s mother said that. Wade is not the issue here. Adriana’s mother is not the issue here. The subject is Azruddin Mohamed. From day one, he fastened himself onto the key players which were the Younge family, the PNC and AFC.

Mohamed is no politician and no intellectual but as a human, he is no fool. He saw how the PNC and AFC were milking the Adriana Younge tragedy. AWD led the charge. She claimed on two occasions that the girl was brutally (her word) murdered.

The Younge family exclaimed that they wanted another autopsy from foreign soil. It was arranged and Mohamed facilitated. The PNC and AFC arranged for visas for the extended family. Their stay in the US was financed and word is, Mohamed was involved.

What happened then is as the supporters of the PNC surrounded their leadership with solidarity over the Younge tragedy and as the PNC surrounded the Younge family, a smart, sophisticated game was playing out with Mohamed as the man with the best poker hand or the man with the best chess moves.

The PNC supporters, the PNC itself, the Younge family and hundreds of scrapeheads that latched on to the Younge family saw a man in the middle – Azruddin Mohamed.
The PNC, the AFC, the lunatic fringe that preach race hate from the US and the scrapeheads knew that Mohamed was deeply involved in all the dimensions of publicising the Younge tragedy. Out of this scenario, PNC, AFC and the scrapeheads saw in Mohamed a political name that they feel they can endorse.

The PNC supporters and the scrapeheads did not need AWD, Nigel Hughes, David Hinds and their traditional PNC leaders. They now had Mohamed and they were assured in their thinking that Aubrey, Nigel, AWD, Sherod Duncan and all of them were also behind Mohamed.

So, what happened on the Nomination Day march? PNC supporters from distinct African areas and Georgetown’s usual rabble-rousers spearheaded Mohamed’s WIN nomination parade. I was out there. If you took away the blue T-shirts of WIN most people on Planet Earth would believe those marchers were either part of a PNC rally or a TUC May-Day march.
I monitored WIN’s procession from Kitty Public Road to Barr Street, Kitty. Two hours after, I went back to the same site and analysed the action. A packed ensemble of WIN attachments was leaving and were heading east on the Rupert Craig Highway. I drove behind them. These were PNC supporters and people who gravitated toward Nigel Hughes when he became AFC’s leader.

What happened on Nomination Day was a complex, absorbing demonstration of one of Guyana’s most curious political oxymorons since modern politics began in British Guiana. The opposition cultivated a wealthy politician and used him to fan the flames of the Adriana Younge tragedy, and it brought them political relevance in an age where the opposition had nothing going for them and Irfaan Ali was soaring to the skies.

But long before the accidental death of the girl, Mohamed knew he was entering politics. His wild, decadent playboy lifestyle in a moment of madness told him he could be president.
So, Mohamed found a field so fertile that not even a magical fertiliser could add to it. He found the PNC and the AFC. And Mohamed said to himself that if the opposition wants to ignite the flames of anti-government fire, he will provide the resources.

And he did. And the opposition was happy they were using him because he appeared silly and uninformed to them. But the guy was smarter than them. As they in street lingo; “he stole their food and eat it.”

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