JAGDEO ACCUSES OTHER PEOPLE OF A LACK OF MODESTY

Jul 08, 2018 AFC Column, Features / Columnists

Charles Ramson Jnr. has thrown his hat into the presidential race.

In going public with his intention to run the Presidential race in 2020 before seeking permission from his party, he might have unwittingly committed political blasphemy. Despite that, he has in essence, signaled to the minority Peoples Progressive Party that they should no longer pay attention to anything party leader and General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo says anymore.

After all, the recent CCJ ruling has completely gutted Jagdeo of his political capital, all the clout, and any relevance for a future in national politics.

Ramson’s statements had only just begun to sink in when Jagdeo predictably jumped on Junior, saying to the public that the man had committed party heresy by openly declaring his intention to run for the presidency without consulting him.

Why PPP leaders are still allowing Jagdeo to ‘run things’ is beyond common sense. Why none came to Ramson’s defence is a mystery. But for Jagdeo, the fact that Ramson’s road did not pass through him annoyed him tremendously, considering the ramifications and the message that highlight his waning political career.

He keeps trying to stay in total command, telling the media recently that “we (the PPP) have a way of approaching these matters. This (Ramson’s declaration) is a departure from that approach that we have always used in the past … but maybe the person here might think this best suits his purpose, but the party will meet and discuss this too. One thing we have frowned upon though, is lack of modesty, lack of modesty among people who are presidential hopefuls”. This comes from Jagdeo whose every action demonstrates the total absence of anything resembling modesty, or conformity with any ‘norm’.

As it is now, the party has three main factions. There is one group headed by Jagdeo camping out at the Church Street Office of the Opposition Leader. Another operates out of the party’s base at Freedom House in Robb Street, Georgetown, and the third has its groundings at Red House on High Street, the former political home of the PPP.

Had the PPP not been dispensed with by angry voters in 2015, Mr. Jagdeo would certainly have reappeared as a force of some sort in another PPP Cabinet. His plan was to set up an Economic Council that would have ensured that all roads, gullies and tracks, and contracts, would have had to pass through him.

Of course, these would have included everything related to local and foreign direct and indirect investments; gun licences; road building and canal clearing contracts; hydropower station construction, i.e. minus the Brazilians whose 2005/6 offer to build Amaila at no cost to Guyana was shut down in preference for Fip Motilall; distribution of prime real estate like Providence front and Liliendaal … this list is long. The upshot was whether he had gotten his third term or not, Jagdeo was jockeying himself into position to remain the most powerful person in cabinet and government.

As far as the Alliance For Change knows, he still has this on his to-do list. Problem is, the PPP is very unlikely to return to govern this nation for some time. That to-do list was likely the reason why he made it clear as day the other day that he was not going to be left out of any future PPP cabinet, not like he was after he’d made way for Donald Ramotar in 2011.

But the decision was made three years into Ramotar’s Presidency to dissolve parliament and make way for the 2015 general and regional elections. To use an old Guyanese analogy, that sent the boat a-falls and totally ruined the man’s plans to become Guyana’s first Oligarch, Russian style.

Although some PPP executive members wish to ensure these plans never fructify, still they allow Jagdeo to dominate all the political space available to the opposition. So far, they have not mustered the spleen to even call their own press conference and interface with the media/public. The Church St. crew sometimes does three per week.

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