IN another column, I will examine what two of Terrence Campbell’s APNU comrades – David Hinds and Tacuma Ogunseye – had to say about the impossibility of African Guyanese becoming businesspeople. For this column, I want to point out to Campbell what Hinds said on his podcast two days ago about race. Readers may recall that I offered a response to Campbell in my column of Friday, September 26, 2025, titled, “The Hinds/Campbell showdown in APNU.”
Here is what I wrote back then: “Campbell said on a podcast that he intends to campaign in PPP constituencies and he cited Babu John and Port Mourant. Two questions arise. Who is he going to take with him on these campaigns and will Hinds be there with him? Secondly, when the Indian people ask Campbell about Hinds’ constant talk about this race and that race, what is going to be the reaction of Campbell?”
Here is what Hinds uttered three days ago in a discussion with Tacuma Ogunseye, in which every Guyanese must see these men as belonging to the deep, deep past of Guyana, but more of that later. Hinds yelled out that when people say WPA and APNU are dying and will not survive, they actually mean that they do not want African Guyanese to survive.
Here is an explicit, unambiguous, lucid and unmistakable identification of WPA and APNU with African Guyanese only. What Hinds did was that he made WPA and APNU synonymous with African Guyanese. Hinds erased the political content of WPA and APNU and replaced it with race. Now, people may want to see the WPA vanish forever because of several factors that may have to do with its role in government. They may not have in mind anything to do with race.
People may want to see the PNC disappear because of the terrible injustice it meted out to Guyanese in general and not one particular race. And that it feels that the PNC has come and gone and when they think like that, race is not on their mind. But Hinds injected the factor of race into people’s thoughts when they say that WPA and APNU are dying. It simply means WPA and APNU are African parties and to wish that they go away is to wish African Guyanese to go away.
First, WPA is not dying but dead. Aubrey Norton committed political treason when he left talented PNC stalwarts and gave Hinds a parliamentary seat. For every vote that Hinds brought into the PNC in the 2025 general elections, Christopher Jones, Ubraj Narine, Sherwin Holder, Mervin Williams and Annette Ferguson brought in 1000 more.
Norton took Hinds, who belonged to an entity that died a long time ago, yet gave him a seat in the House. No Guyanese who wants the WPA to die has any thought about African Guyanese because they know that the WPA has no African support and no one in Guyana, except the has-been leader of the PNC, Aubrey Norton, believes that the WPA speaks for African Guyanese.
The issue Campbell should take up with Hinds is if he believes that APNU is an African outfit. If Campbell agrees, then Campbell cannot keep his promise to the nation and campaign in Babu John and Port Mourant. People are going to chase him with a huge exclamation that they will pelt him with. It goes like this – if your party is an African organisation, then why do you want Indian support? You are not a multi-racial party, so go and meet villagers who are Africans.
This is a logical explanation that will come from the heart and soul of any citizen. If your party is a self-proclaimed White, supremacist outfit, why do you want to talk to people in an African or Indian village? They are going to reject you at the psychic level, with the possibility that they will be hostile to you.
If Campbell says no, APNU is multi-racial, then he pits himself against Hinds and Campbell has to be naïve to think that if he describes APNU as multi-racial, Hinds will not confront him and he will be more naïve to think that will be the end of the story between him and Hinds.
I did say at the beginning of this analysis that I will do a second column on what Hinds and Ogunseye had to say about the African temperament towards business, which will put Campbell in an ideological tailspin. Campbell can go in two directions – side with Hinds, deepen the racial rhetoric about the PNC’s ontology or recognise reality and live in the new world of Guyana and the new future of Guyana.

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