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Khemraj Ramjattan is in big trouble if the APNU+AFC wins

Jan 31, 2020 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

The APNU+AFC has scheduled 16 rallies for the March elections. Six of those gatherings have been staged at the following places – D’Urban Park, Hopetown, Kitty, Golden Grove, New Amsterdam and last Wednesday at Anna Regina.
Of the six events completed, Moses Nagamootoo has spoken at two – the campaign launch at D’Urban Park and last Wednesday at Anna Regina.
Khemraj Ramjattan has spoken at one since the series of rallies began – the launching of the campaign. Here now is the schedule for the remaining 10 bandwagons
Fri Jan 31 – Leonora: President David Granger; Joseph Harmon;Thandi McAllister and Ganesh Mahipaul
Sun Feb 2nd – Rose Hall: President David Granger; Carl Greenidge; Jennifer Wade and Coretta McDonald
Wed Feb 5th – Diamond: President David Granger; Winston Felix; Joan Ann Ramascindo and one local speaker to be named
Fri Feb 7th – Bartica: President David Granger; Nageshwari Lochanpersaud (Kamal Persaud); Mervyn Williams; and Estiva Lake
Sun Feb 9th – Wismar: President David Granger; David Patterson; and two local speakers to be named
Wed Feb 12th – Mahdia; President David Granger; Ronald Bulkan; and two local speakers to be named
Sat Feb 15th – Lethem: President David Granger; Sydney Allicock; Dawn Hastings-Williams and Vincent Henry
Fri Feb 21st – Corriverton: President David Granger; Kads Khan; Fiyaz Mursaline and Shurla Scott
Wed Feb 26th – Mabaruma: President David Granger; George Norton; Karen Cummings; and Mervyn Williams
Sat Feb 29th – Georgetown: President David Granger; Khemraj Ramjattan; Volda Lawrence and one other speaker to be named
If you examine the schedule above, you would notice that so far Nagamootoo was given two opportunities which he has completed. Volda Lawrence was awarded two and has spoken at one so far –Kitty. Mervyn Williams will speak at two. Ramjattan who is the unofficial PM candidate has been allotted two occasions just as Williams and Lawrence.
There has been no official announcement from any person or organisation including leaders from the PNC and AFC as to who the PM candidate is. Only David Granger at the Hopetown rally spoke of Ramjattan being the PM candidate.
It was not an official, legal documentary release to the nation. Such an approach still has to be done. It remains a guessing game if there will be an official announcement to the world that Ramjattan is the PM candidate.
If Ramjattan is the PM candidate, it looks like an ill-shaped affair; of sixteen rallies he is given two allocations the same number as Nagamootoo, Williams and Lawrence. Here is my analysis of the schedule and by extension, the state of play in the leadership of the coalition.
If you have the two leaders of the bandwagon trying to win an election, why would one leader speak at all sixteen rallies and the number two candidate in terms of ranking is only assigned two opportunities?
That does not make sense to me and I will opine that it does not make for logical strategising. Why two to Nagamootoo, Williams and Lawrence and the same two to your PM candidate?
But here is the thing and this thing is big, serious and intriguing. The APNU+AFC is a coalition formation of two major, separate, independent entities – APNU and AFC– which are supposed to draws constituencies from different sections of the Guyanese world and the combination are counted together to secure victory. It appears this is what happened in 2015.
In November last year at the AFC headquarters on the Railway Embankment, Cathy Hughes, the AFC vice-chairman, reminded the PNC that it has never won an election on its own. She openly implied that it was votes of citizens who supported the AFC that caused the 2015 victory.
I know of no political analyst and political observer in any part of the world who writes about Guyana that would deny the AFC votes made the 2015 victory possible.
How then if the AFC is expected to bring in votes your PM candidate is given only two rallies out of sixteen to address the Guyanese people? I am no political strategist but this makes no sense. The official strategist for the AFC is Alston Stewart from Jamaica who is currently in Guyana advising the AFC house.
I have done five columns (space would not allow for an enumeration) in which I argued that Ramjattan will not be the PM candidate. Let me be pellucid and unambiguous about my sources – they are impeccable PNC contacts.
I repeat – those persons told me the PNC does not want Ramjattan as the PM if it wins in March. If it wins, my bet is that he will not be the Prime Minister.

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