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Ogunseye’s call for dialogue is commendable

Jan 07, 2022 Letters

Dear Editor,

Kaieteur News – Please permit me to respond to Mr. Tacuma Ogunseye’s letter in KN of 1-4-22. Mr Ogunseye is announcing a rethinking of a previous policy whereby he was an avid Africanist and now is calling for a new dialogue whereby we can “commit to a new national engagement where one speaks for all and all for one”. It looks like Mr. Ogunseye has had a Kafkaesque metamorphosis of sorts.
Mr. Ogunseye credits his changeover to the way the electorate voted in the 1992 and 1997 elections where the PPP/C received more than 51 percent of the votes cast. Mr. Ogunseye credits this to all Indians voting for that party but ignores the fact that Indians are only 39 percent of the population. He fails to take into account that the swing votes which put the PPP/C over 51 percent had to have come from mixed, indigenous and African voters in both 1992 and 1997.
Let’s concede Mr. Ogunseye’s makeover to a “new African man” for all intents and purposes is sincere. Let’s concede his call for a dialogue is genuine therefore most commendable, doesn’t he first need to sell himself to his fellow Africanists to toe the line that he now proposes? Mr. Ogunseye singularly taking on such a herculean task for “a new national engagement where one speaks for all and all for one” is likened to a modern day Don Quixote on a hairy mission.
Present day WPA for all intentions is a rabid Africanist haven with the likes of Dr. David Hinds on displaying the very policy that Mr. Ogunseye would like to be rid of. Mr. Ogunseye should first clean house and in this endeavour I wish him the best of luck.

Sultan Mohamed

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