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Aug 14, 2012 Letters
Dear Editor,
Reading between the lines is crucial. Joey Jagan’s letter titled “The politics of Donald Ramotar” offers up something serious for this country to ponder when he stated “Mr. Editor, the campaign which was headed by Robert Persaud was a disaster with his concentration on “hip-gyration politics”, wastage of money, having Jagdeo act like a toothless pitbull, talking “stupidness” most of the time and Ramotar’s failures to keep the grass roots organization intact while doing nothing much to solve local concerns nationwide – and then Persaud is rewarded with a Ministry he can never run, especially when one looks at his dismal record at Agriculture. This man is so full of ambition to be President of Guyana when he is way out of his abilities especially in the new ministry Ramotar (Jagdeo) specially created for him – no wonder the miners have called for his removal. I can assure everyone that the day the PPP endorses Robert Persaud for the presidential spot is the day Guyana is finished as a nation.” Critically, Jagdeo’s name is placed in brackets just after Ramotar’s name when Joey Jagan refers to the president. More importantly, I wonder about Joey Jagan’s last statement in the quote. Is there a plan for Robert Persaud, who is related to Jagdeo by marriage and who is arguably Jagdeo’s closest confidant, to gain the presidency by way of a President Ramotar resignation or retirement? Was there a plan in place for Ramotar to resign or retire from the presidency at some point before the 2016 election and for Robert Persaud to become the president of Guyana and the PPP’s presidential candidate for the 2016 election? Is there a plan for Robert Persaud to become the PPP’s next presidential candidate in the 2016 election?
If, as some claim, Jagdeo is the Putin behind Ramotar’s Medvedev, the transfer from Ramotar to Robert Persaud would strengthen Jagdeo’s behind-the-scenes control of the presidency since Persaud is deeply connected to Jagdeo. Despite his spectacular failure, incredible administrative impotence and gross incompetence in all of those powerful roles Jagdeo handed him, Robert Persaud owes his political ascendancy to Jagdeo. If any of the present Jagdeoites obtain the PPP’s presidential candidate bid for 2016, it will sink the PPP.
PPP members are disgusted with the rotten degeneracy of the charlatans who have commandeered the party away from its working class base and defiled the name and image of Cheddi Jagan. While they sip champagne in massive mansions, they expect the working class poor to vote for them. I strongly believe President Ramotar could be set up for a fall and his dismal performance since assuming the presidency in November 2011 will not help.
The danger with President Ramotar, as General Secretary of the PPP for failing to stand up for the rank and file PPP members and its working class base by insisting for greater democracy, accountability and transparency is that he becomes part of the problem and cannot find a solution after he has helped create and perpetuate the problem. Now that he has allowed the Central Committee to go ahead with a sinister and appalling show of hands voting system instead of a proper democratic primary to select the presidential candidate, he has opened the can of worms where the very same Central Committee dominated by the Jagdeoites can vote for him to step down. Mr. Ramotar will accept their decision largely because he believes in democratic centralism, party paramountcy and will never resist the party’s position, which puts the party above the individual. If he continues this failed leadership, they will eventually vote for him to step down and replace him with one of their own.
Robert Persaud or Ashni Singh or Anil Nandlall or any of the Jagdeoites will be a grave disaster for this country. For starters, they could only get the nomination through a Jagdeoite-controlled Central Committee, which has been secured by postponing constitutionally due PPP congress elections during which a new PPP Central Committee is elected. Once the hijackers took over the party they realized that at a new general congress, they would be voted out of the Central Committee by PPP members so they postponed the congress for 2011. The outrage and anger from PPP supporters and members in this country means that a very different Central Committee will be elected at any new congress and the Jagdeoites will definitely be gutted from control of the Central Committee. This is how upset PPP members are. There is no way PPP members and supporters will ever vote for a Jagdeoite to become the presidential candidate so the likes of Ashni Singh, Frank Anthony, Robert Persaud, Anil Nandlall and others are out of luck. PPP supporters are too afraid of the Jagdeo experience repeating itself all over again. Even worse, PPP members know that Jagdeo inherited a moderately corrupt government and made it the most corrupt government Guyana has ever known. The Jagdeo rule saw Guyana take corruption, wrongdoing, venality and criminality to catastrophic proportions. PPP members are deathly afraid of Jagdeoites steeped in the culture of this rampant skullduggery inheriting this empire of iniquity. They are wary that the Jagdeoite who becomes president will see the venality taken even further than the Jagdeo regime itself. So, the Jagdeoites controlling the Central Committee will do everything in their power to deny PPP members from voting and from the right to vote in a general congress election. It is a travesty and a dirty shame that PPP members and supporters are facing the same electoral heinousness from their own PPP party that they faced under the PNC rule.
Even worse, at least the PNC offered a pretense of a sham election during those 28 years. PPP members may not ever get another congress election before the next general election. That is the kind of danger the political terrorists within the PPP who have committed terror by hijacking and holding ransom the PPP present to the PPP and its wider working class membership.
M. Maxwell
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