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The AFC should not trust the PNC/APNU

Apr 28, 2012 Letters

 

DEAR EDITOR,
Throughout its history, the PNC/APNU has been a party of political scampishness. In 1964 the PNC ‘ratted’ and kicked out the United Force after the UF helped it to gain power through the backdoor, thanks to American meddling.
There are some fundamental characteristics about the PNC/APNU. The two most glaring are poor leadership and the unadulterated desperation for power. The PNC has already proven it can’t handle power, even when there is no opposition. That dismal leadership and desperation caused the PNC/APNU to do some really dumb, reckless and dirty things.
Arguably, the dumbest thing done by the PNC leadership was failing to alter the 1980 Burnham Constitution when it knew it could never win a free and fair election. The PPP hammered the PNC/APNU election after election after 1992 and then used the Burnham Constitution to batter the PNC, marginalize those same Africans who vote religiously for the PNC, and fill its pockets at will. If the PPP loses power tomorrow, it still controls the wealth of this nation. To add insult to injury, PPP supporters were already the dominant wealth group to begin with.
Never has a party betrayed its supporters with such foolish decision-making like the PNC. Fast forward to 2012 and the PNC/APNU stabs the AFC in the back by cutting a secret deal with the PPP. It was only when it was rudely exposed that it ran back to the AFC and ended up adopting the positions the AFC held steadfast to throughout.
The AFC’s leadership did not compromise on its desire for deep cuts and it got it. A party with seven seats defeated the giants. Now the PNC/APNU again sidelined the AFC from getting a commissioner seat on GECOM. That was a move stemming from desperation for power.
The PNC/APNU sees its domination of the electoral process as vital to its attempts to regain power. I will be blunt here. The PNC/APNU cannot be trusted. It is dominated by old despots from the PNC days. They will always cut your throat if you get too cozy with them. While APNU was flip-flopping, the AFC was emerging as the only party with any credibility. The AFC got the cuts it wanted albeit in smaller amounts. PNC/APNU supporters, and in particular those who left the AFC to return to the PNC/APNU in 2011, are taking notes. They saw which party demonstrated strength and competence. The PNC/APNU made the biggest fool of itself.
The AFC cannot afford to trust the PNC/APNU. The PNC/APNU cannot afford to continue this raw backstabbing. For starters, this new setup of an opposition-controlled Parliament was not achieved as much by increased APNU support as it was achieved by the AFC splitting the Indian vote and stealing vital Amerindian and Mixed votes from the PPP.
PNC/APNU supporters need to know that any return of those voters to the PPP will derail this current arrangement of an opposition-controlled Parliament. More importantly, the PNC/APNU needs to take note of this reality. For if it continues to behave like a political snake to the AFC, those very voters the AFC stole from the PPP will at some point convince themselves that the PNC/APNU is a rat and will return to the PPP. This puts the PNC/APNU back into the political dungeons as a useless opposition to a PPP majority. Thank heavens the PPP cannot muster a majority or it would have called an election. AFC should know its history when it is dealing with the PNC/APNU for it might become its future.
M. Maxwell

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