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The PPP is on the upswing
Dear Editor,
A good friend of mine called me to say did you see Jagdeo’s welcome by the people compared to Granger on their walkabout over the Easter Weekend?
Upon my investigation, the videos and social media told a story. Social media illustrated a fact that Bharrat Jagdeo was received by the people almost like a rock star.
The videos on David Granger in Corriverton, on the other hand, reveals one who was tired, fatigued and washed-out.
There is still a lot about Guyana that the PNC political strategists need to learn because they clearly do not get it.
This political revival of the PPP just three short years after they were on their knees politically was as a direct result of the old-fashioned political efforts by a team lead by one man, to reach an audience that they could not have reached effectively in 2015.
That constituency is the rural working class youths from all races, especially those in the sugar belt. The fact remains that this constituent was underserved by the PPP during the Ramotar government but today those youths are seeing how much worse the policies of the Granger government are, thus this almost god-like embrace of Jagdeo.
What Jagdeo has done is for the political record books. He took the PPP back to its core and has effectively logged on to the sentiments of a carefully crafted snapshot of the Guyanese people. What Granger and his cabinet colleagues say on NCN is not reality because it does not reconcile with the economic fitness of the ordinary man.
When Minister Jordan predicts on NCN a 3.8% growth in the economy, but people in 2018 are feeling less money in their pockets, they know he is talking utter poppycock because from their dinner table they see the world differently. It is this disconnect from the people by the PNC led Government that Mr. Jagdeo continues to successfully tap into, with little or no political resistance from the Granger Cabinet. How can a government lose so much political ground so quickly? This is nothing but a political meltdown for the PNC and a total vanquishing of the political minions they call partners in the APNU.
The fact remains that Mr. Jagdeo’s poll numbers are going up while Mr. Grangers are going down. What about Moses Nagamootoo? Is he on the charts at all? If he and the AFC submits themselves to a poll on their public action since 2015, I am convinced that their popularity rating will definitely be in single digits.
The Guyanese people are very politically awake and only a fool with his new found gold will not arise to this reality.
Regards
Albert Allen
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