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Why is the PPP/C panicking over David Granger?

Jul 18, 2012 Letters

Dear Editor,
Important to note is that successive leaders of the PNC and PNCR have served as both party leader and President or Opposition Leader. This situation obtains whether there was a coalition of parties or not, as in the case of Burnham and the coalition with the United Force and Robert Corbin in the case of the PNCR-1G.
Desmond Hoyte served as party leader and president and later, as opposition leader and party leader. So the notion that a PNCR leader will have too much on his plate should he serve as leader of APNU and party leader is, just what it is a notion.
The PNCR has always had strong and capable leaders who have demonstrated that they are capable of performing these functions with the assistance of their team members.
Further, to adopt the position that the two positions would be burdensome for any one person would be to advocate a position which says that the Leader of the PNCR should not strive to become president of Guyana, as this might be too much work for the leader, this is a position that every party member and supporter of the PNCR would reject forcefully.
The obvious question would be why have a party leader who has no desire to become president of the country? The last time I checked, Donald Ramotar is leader of the Peoples’ Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C), civic being the group the PPP coalesced with, and he is also president of Guyana. I hear none in the leadership of the PPP asking for Donald Ramotar to relinquish one of these positions but yet I see key PPP/C operatives pontificating what should happen at PNCR upcoming congress.
I watched NCN and hear them ranting that David Granger must not be leader of the PNCR because he is already Opposition Leader. Let me state here that the intelligent people of the PNCR are capable of crafting their own destiny, I am aware that the PPP/C is like a wounded lion hoping to fashion a political conversation to push its propaganda in order to divert the focus of the people from the national conversation.
The conversation which surrounds hinges on bad governance to the corruption that pervades state entities. Their hope is to distract and fuel division and infighting among our ranks, particularly during this period of our upcoming congress.
For them the conversation on NICIL must be lost; the travesty of the PPP/C PAC vote to have Dr Ashni Singh’s wife audit the state assets her husband manages they hope disappear; their plan is that the outrageous Linden electricity hike becomes a non issue; that the fact that Ralph Ramkarran abandoned the PPP is forgotten; that the fact that budget cuts were necessary is hidden; that NCN is a hot spot for corruption must escape the minds of the people.
These are the things they hope to get lost in the national conversation. I therefore, wish to remind every PNCR member and supporter to stay focused and not be distracted. Let us not help the PPP/C fuel its agenda.
Let us ask ourselves if the real issue is not one of the PPP/C being fearful of David Granger becoming leader of the PNCR.
Lurlene Nestor

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