AFC, PNC – Lonely are the brave

Apr 23, 2025 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

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Hard Truths…

By GHK Lall

Kaieteur News- The latest is that the AFC is ready to go it alone.  Suicide mission number one.  The more muscular PNC say that it, too, will take the long and lonely road to Elections 2025.  Lonely are the brave, indeed.  Suicide mission number two.  The polls of both parties, of which the PPP knows, tell them the same: each by itself is a doggone loser.  Together, them may may scrape through with what looks like an electoral triumph.  I must say it, straight up: apart, the AFC and PNC don’t stand el diablo’s chance in heaven.  That’s one thing, and not so much a concern of mine.  There is a bigger concern for me, which is now put before the worlds of Guyanese, Americans, and Exxon.

Forget about suicide missions by the AFC and PNC.  My concern is over the rackets that these two political parties are running with one outcome only.  The Guyanese people are made into suckers.  Again.  Their own supporters are taken advantage of and led down the champagne and roses path.  Again.  Listen to them: we are going to unseat the PPP.  How, my fellow members of what passes for the Guyanese illuminati?  We are confident of victory.  Oh yeah!  Then kindly share some of that exciting brew that is imbibed, as it has its enchantments, possibilities.

When I inquire about the work the PNC and AFC are doing on the political hustings, they laugh at me.  Those are the polite ones, since the others think I have lost it, belong in the same sanatorium as the whole PPP crowd.  What work, they ask?  Get with the program.  It’s all a game of big talk and big projections, and nothing but one big bluff.  I hear about work being done by the PNC and AFC that is behind the scenes.  Whoever knows of a high-stakes political campaign run in the shadows of some imaginary underground.  Please do a favour, and drop me the blueprint.  I don’t need no damn party manifesto.  The PPP is good enough, since they are all duplicates of the others.  Just hand deliver the schematics of this mysterious political campaign run by the AFC and PNC, and if it has any merit, I will change my current no-voting stand and vote for both of them.  Would only be two times, and not two dozen.  Many have been the times that I said the PPP is a secret society, one worthy of masonry, only to discover that it has company.  There is the AFC and PNC with their hard work, obscure work, and thankless work, out of sight.  Frankly, I am beginning to think that these sharp fellows see themselves as scientists working on some secret formula in a top-secret laboratory.  Some political scientists they are, since everybody can see right through their secrets.

My bigger concern is what this ludicrous and frivolous business involving the 2025 elections does to the psyche of Guyanese.  Here they are despairing over the craven and corrupt PPP Government, and there is not one rescuer in sight.  These guys are worse than flatterers for deceiving; they deceive to make idiots of the Guyanese people, none more than their own diehard believers.  I hear that politics is a dirty business.  It could be more accurately categorized as a criminal business.  We are going to compete vigorously.  How and with what and when?  We are going to be the masters on the day after Elections 2025.  I submit that there is a typo in 2025: the 2 should be a 3, as in 2035.  Good luck, Guyanese.

Talking about luck, and Exxon doesn’t need any.  How lucky can one American oil company get when what it got in Guyana was more precious than oil?  The PPP, PNC, and AFC all stuffed snugly into a Walmart shopping bag.  The easiest and cheapest, and neatest way to win a war is to get the generals of the other side eating out of one’s hand.  A bird in the hand is worth two in the air.  I will take the one and the other two, so that there are no loose ends, no unpleasant surprises.  One of the birds could turn out to be a hawk or turkey vulture.  It is where Exxon sits rather serenely.  Don’t envy the Yankees; they did their homework, then their negotiating work, and so they reap the results of all their clever work.  Guyanese are the only ones left out of the secrets under lock and key, the bargains finalized, and the true state of the 2025 elections’ playing field.

Considering all this, one question surfaces.  The PPP, PNC, and AFC: who are they for, who really?  Answer: the PPP, PNC, and AFC are all for Exxon, which means that they are all for America, with padlock, gate, and the whole damn fence surrendered.  In sum, Guyanese have no one and nothing going for them.  Amid all the talk about coalescing and winning, it was all a genuine farce, with Guyanese taken for a ride.  The AFC and PNC were going through the motions all along.  They just made it official.  No wonder Guyanese are getting motion sickness.  Winner: PPP.  Exxon wants it, America wants it.  The AFC and PNC are also behind it.

(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this newspaper.)   

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