THE People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has taken note of a call from the leadership of the Alliance For Change for the resignation of its own Regional Councillor in Region 6, Haseef Yusuf.The party wishes to remind the AFC that its own founding members: Khemraj Ramjattan and Raphael Trotman who refused to vacate their parliamentary seats when calls were made for their resignations by their respective former parties.

The PPP believes that this is another indication that the AFC is crumbling internally because of the pervasive corruption within that party, and widespread disagreement with the positions taken by several of its leaders, including Moses Nagamootoo and Khemraj Ramjattan, which appear to be anti-developmental and anti-nationalistic in nature.

The PPP has always held the view that the AFC was not genuinely interested in developing Guyana and working to redefine the political landscape here. The PPP reflects on the idle and irresponsible promises made by the AFC’s leadership with the aim of “buying votes” and “hoodwinking” Guyanese.

Additionally, it is also relevant for the party to examine how the AFC betrayed the same sugar workers whom they claimed to have supported by supporting a call to shut down the sugar industry.

It does not therefore come as a surprise and shock to learn that the AFC leadership cabal would seek to undermine dissenting views and internal challenges to their actions in the National Assembly.