Opposition Leader Norton – A picture worth a thousand words

Jul 01, 2023 Editorial

Kaieteur News – Opposition Leader, Mr. Aubrey Norton, cuts a lonelier and lonelier figure nowadays. He stands as man and leader that is increasingly out of step, a man out of his depth, even one out of place, with the burning issues of the day. That is, when he does stand for anything at all. We do not have the luxury of feeling sorry for the Opposition Leader because so much is at stake, so many Guyanese are limping around wounded, so many live with the agony of dashed expectations.

Though it has been said a thousand times, one more time will not hurt, it will only reinforce what is settled truth. Guyana needs a political opposition of substance, of presence, and of resonance. Sad to say, as difficult as it is to swallow, the Guyanese people do not have an opposition possessing the vibrant strains needed today. The opposition is floating, feeling its way, coming across as deeply divided. It is lost relative to what could be game changing in the lives of hopeful Guyanese, the many who are left behind.

Hopeful Guyanese go beyond opposition supporters because today there numerous citizens who are disappointed and disillusioned at how the PPPC Government has managed the nation’s oil patrimony. Guyanese look for an alternative that can be believed, and they come up empty-handed. Because the political opposition is missing in powerful action. As the Leader of the Opposition goes, so does the opposition itself, for the most part. The concern is that Opposition Leader Norton is going nowhere, even in the places that should cherish him, embrace him with open arms.

Mr. Norton went to Linden in the aftermath of the Local Government Elections results, and he was the loneliest of figures. He stood in isolation, whether by choice or the distancing of his comrades, his friends, neighbours, and residents from the place of his roots. If the hometown son is given this treatment in the place from which he hails, then it does not take much to appreciate how poorly he fares with the rest of Guyanese, particularly those who are sick to their stomachs with the lies and frauds of the PPPC Government.

Also, Mr. Norton keeps prioritizing the 2020 elections, and what occurred through the tricks and sharpness of the then PPPC Opposition. For there he was proudly carrying his placard to draw attention to the frauds, as claimed, of the PPPC in 2020. It is nearly three years since that traumatic time of delays and serious misconduct by officials linked to the then-APNU+AFC Coalition Government, and Mr. Norton is protesting publicly. Since that is a highly prized priority for him, we can only look on in sorrow at what the Opposition has come to, when there is a different reality that mocks its actions.

What Mr. Norton should know is that the frauds of his own group that were publicized before the world has set back his party’s supporters first, and the rest of Guyana next, by a good 50 years. Sincere and thoughtful people in his own PNCR group came to that conclusion a long time ago. But the Opposition Leader persists with this wild goose chase of his, which leads nowhere, other than to take the Guyanese people further down the drain.

We do not want Opposition Leader Norton to prioritize what we prioritize. But unless he understands that this nation’s oil is the key to individual, group, and collective prosperity, then he is even more lost that we could ever think. If he cannot concentrate his mind to come to grips with the fact that all the things that he holds close (cost-of-living, elections, and so on) live and die with the grand oil endowment that is Guyana’s, then he is the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time fighting the wrong battles.

The plight of the opposition is its business. But because an opposition (and leader) of depth and strength could make so much of a difference for Guyana, then that is our business. The PPPC is on a roll, Mr. Norton either finds his feet and head, or he risks being trampled upon, becoming part of the wash of Guyanese history.

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