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PPP: Jagdeo’s return a dead issue
The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has distanced itself from moves to have former President Bharrat Jagdeo return for a third term. Over the past week, a court case was filed to challenge the Constitution which limits a President to two terms in
Bharrat Jagdeo
office.
A flyer has also since surfaced which is pushing for Jagdeo to become the Prime Ministerial candidate for the party in the upcoming General and Regional Elections set for May 11.
Yesterday, the ruling party in a statement said it had nothing to do with the attempts, and it is serving as a distraction at this time.
“What is of interest is the timing at which this challenge is being raised and by whom. Guyana is on the cusp of national and regional elections. Many challenges lie ahead, the most important being to ensure that the elections are free and fair. Clearly, this new development is an attempt to throw a spanner in the works.”
Regarding Monday’s filing of a case by a Cedric Richardson which wants the court to rule, that the two-term limit signed into law in 2001 by Jagdeo himself while he was President, was unconstitutional, PPP said that the sponsors of the legal challenge appear to have a hidden agenda, “in the real sense of the term other than invoking or blocking the boogie of a “third term” for Bharrat Jagdeo”.
The interest of those behind the challenge lies in the “darkest and deepest crevices of a democracy comparable to the galleries of Hades”.
PPP noted that it was Jagdeo himself who publicly affirmed time and again that he has no interest whatsoever in a third term. This happened this week also after news of the court case surfaced.
“It has now become obvious that Mr. Jagdeo’s assertions fell on deaf ears and that his expression of disinterest in returning to the Presidency notwithstanding, the modern-day Quislings working in close collaboration with the local satraps, continue to generate and peddle this absolute nonsense, elevating it to useless legalistic twaddle.”
The party said that Jagdeo remains a highly popular figure within and beyond the membership and supporters of the PPP, but it should in no way be intended to be translated into a “third term” candidature.
“The PPP is aware of the fact that while many of its members and supporters hold the former President in high esteem and would have liked to see his return to the Presidency, they are very much aware that there are wolves in sheep’s clothing in our society who seek to sow discord and to engage in deceitful and artful fandangle aimed at misleading and confusing PPP supporters.”
PPP also insisted that while the other political parties are still dithering to name their Presidential Candidate, the PPP has already done so. It is President Donald Ramotar.
“The PPP has confronted many subterfuges in and out of elections season. We fought off and overcame all of them. This new subterfuge will be fought off too and consigned to the dustbin of history.”
According to the flyer, which is making its rounds on the social pages, Jagdeo was not consulted on the petition to nominate him as a Prime Ministerial candidate. The flyer is addressed to the Central and Executive Committee of the PPP/C.
Despite leaving office in 2011 after completing his constitutional two terms in office, Jagdeo has remained a controversial figure with questions over his role in the multi-billion dollar drug contracts to the his best friend, Dr. Ranjisinghi ‘Bobby’ Ramroop; the Berbice Bridge deal; the Amaila Falls hydro costs and the shady Marriott Hotel project.
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