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WHERE IS FREDDIE?
Where is Freddie? For a while he could not be found… well, at least by the boss man. Messages were left that the boss wanted to see him.
These messages were delivered; he was told by Adam and others that he should report to the boss. Yet, this man they call Freddie was appearing and disappearing like magic.
These antics are not consistent with his peeping habit. This is a man who likes to spy into people’s business. As the song says, he coming now with helicopter and submarine fuh peep. “Everybody peeping.” Freddie peeping.
He is, however, not taking any chances with the boss. He is not even taking a peek into the man’s office. He is just coming in and disappearing.
He is now appearing more often in the letters pages of the Stabroek News than he is in this newspaper. His most recent contribution was to theorize about the composition of the Central Executive of the People’s Progressive Party.
His theory is that the Central Executive is mainly comprised of politicians from the eighties, and that none of the President’s protégés has made it into the Central Executive. He even claims that Robert was always closer to the older leaders of the party than Bharrat.
It seems to me that Freddie is trying to make out that the President really is the biggest loser when it comes to the Congress, since none of his protégés has made it into the Central Executive.
What Freddie has, however, failed to indicate — and this is where his analysis is highly flawed — is that what the Central Executive of the party has done is to return the old Executive Committee. This is what it has done.
It is not as if those who supported the President have been dumped. The entire old Executive Committee, with the exception of the Moses and Kellawan Lall, has been returned. There have hardly, therefore, been any changes.
The only thing, therefore, of significance in this most recent election has been the coming together in the Central Executive of the old guard and the new guard.
Freddie is therefore off key when he suggests that the meaning of last Tuesday’s elections is that the PPP no longer sees political value in newcomers being at the helm.
This vote was not about newcomers; it was about blocking any perceived threat to the existing power bases of the party.
It also does not mean, as Freddie suggests, that the votes suggest the PPP will run with a presidential candidate from the eighties.
This will indeed happen; the PPP will run with a candidate from the eighties.
However, this will not be because of the vote of last Tuesday.
After what has happened within the Government, and given what has happened in Guyana under the incumbent President, the PPP has no other option but to go for a mature candidate for the 2011 elections.
The youth option has been discredited by the performance of the Government and by the strained relationship between the party and the Government.
Freddie is also wrong when he says that the thirty-five persons who met on Tuesday afternoon last have taken the position that President Jagdeo must relate to the leaders who have built and shaped the party.
Instead, what has happened is that two factions within the party have come together to neutralise what they saw as a perceived threat.
They have come together, but there is no guarantee that the relationship of these two factions would be any better under the new Executive Committee than it was under the old.
Freddie is also mistaken when he says that the Central Executive of the party will select the party’s Presidential candidate.
In fact, what this column is predicting is that the Executive Committee will endorse a candidate, and that this candidate will be confirmed by the Central Committee.
So just who will be the PPP’s Presidential candidate for the 2011 elections? It will not be as simple as Freddie thinks.
The Peeper knows what he is saying, because just as how Freddie peeping, the Peeper also peeping. In fact, everybody peeping.
So let us sing the song.
At nights when you think they sleepin, they hiding behind window curtain, peepin
Everybody Peepin.
Doh try to hide in yuh verandah, they passin with helicopter, peepin
Everybody Peepin. (aye yo)
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