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Ramkarran is way off mark, PPP is on top of things- Rohee
– Warns electorate to brace for the unexpected
General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party(PPP), Clement Rohee, fettered by the comments made by
PPP General Secretary, Clement Rohee
his former comrade—Ralph Ramkarran—has sought to make it known that the Party is pulling out all the stops for the upcoming elections to ensure a good package is presented to the electorate.
Recently, Ramkarran, a former PPP stalwart, published an article on his website—conversationtree.gy—to the effect that the Party has lost the grip it had on the electorate. He said that citizens have “grown tired of the same promises and the same faces.”
Ramkarran predicted that the electorate will most likely vote PPP out of office as the governing party seems to have lost the capacity to be innovative.
Ramkarran, who resigned from the PPP in 2012 reportedly over corruption issues, said that the Party has been on the “back foot” since it lost its majority in 2011.
The former Speaker of the National Assembly said that the APNU+AFC alliance will keep the PPP on the back foot, if their campaign is supplemented with a credible programme.
Ramkarran noted that the only response of the PPP is its record from 1992 to the present and of the People’s National Congress Reform’s past. He said however that advances made since 1992 no longer inspire because conditions before 1992 are distant memories.
As he hosted his most recent press conference, Rohee told the media that Ramkarran’s “prognosis” is way off mark.
He said that the PPP has “great potential” and the ability to attract many to its ranks.
He added, “We have never ever been bankrupt of ideas and we will have a list of candidates that will be attractive to the electorate.”
Also, Rohee told the media, “What you guys have to do now is still wonder and ponder what the PPP’s list of candidates is likely to be and take the position that you should not be surprised by the unexpected.”
Ramkarran had also said that the PPP could have been facing the electorate under completely different circumstances but as it displayed a lack of foresight, “it sat back and allowed its opponents (A Partnership for National Unity and Alliance for Change) to unite, rather than keeping them competing for influence, as they had been doing after the (2011) elections.”
He said that as a result of the PPP’s complete lack of foresight, the APNU+AFC political alliance is now a threatening force to the PPP’s hold on political power.
Ramkarran said that if the PPP had established an early coalition government with APNU after being reduced to a plurality in 2011, the electorate would have been asked at these elections to return a PPP+APNU to office as opposed to vote in an APNU+AFC alliance.
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