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Kaieteur News – Campaigning is picking up steam as the days go deeper into August, closer to that magic date of September 1st. E-Day is going to be V-Day for one of the six contestants in the general and regional elections race. It is already proving to be a slugfest, a banquet of promises, and the major contenders trying to out promise one another. Like prior elections campaigns in Guyana, this one is the same. Amid the campaigning and promising, there is the mudslinging, the fearmongering, and reaching for the stars. No one wants to be left behind, even if that means that they must walk all over the next man to get where they are going.
PPP General Secretary Jagdeo is hurting badly, which shows in the amount of time he spends on the WIN’s leader, Azruddin Mohamed. From our experience, when Jagdeo is afraid of someone, and the potential exposures that they represent to him, he has a habit of overdoing things. He loses control, and becomes a man possessed, so intent he is to vanquish the tormentor and bone-in-the-throat, who is making his existence a living hell. The WIN’s leader has been making inroads into the traditional bases of both the ruling PPPC and the Opposition APNU. His appeal is so consistent that the PPPC cannot afford to ignore him, or shoo him away. Mohamed’s appeal is so worrying to the PPP general secretary that the party’s decades old nemesis, the PNC now the APNU, that Jagdeo speaks less of them, and attacks them less. What the electorate is viewing is Jagdeo focusing most of his attention, and directing much of his energies, on WIN’s Mohamed.
Mohamed has become the challenge for Jagdeo. Not Aubrey Norton, not Nigel Hughes, but Azruddin Mohamed is the one that is driving Bharrat Jagdeo crazy. Whenever citizens take a breath, and believe that there is a welcome lull in the hostilities against WIN and Mohamed, another kitchen sink is dug up from somewhere by the PPPC and dropped on his head. From the US Ambassador to Guyana to the Guyana private sector, a whole army of foot and media soldiers have been put to work to slowdown Mohamed by digging holes in his path. Voters are alternately disturbed and thrilled by the circus atmosphere, which notwithstanding its chaotic nature, does have its serious moments.
Despite those moments, the spotlight is still firmly fixed on what next is going to be weaponized against the new party that calls itself WIN, and its leader, Azruddin Mohamed. Prospective voters hear the roll of promises, but they have one ear cocked for the next blow to be directed at the most serious threat to the PPPC’s hold on power in a long time.
From the PPPC, voters in Region One hear about some more electricity relief to the tune of a 30% reduction. From the APNU, voters in New Amsterdam, were told that 25% of their oil money will be saved, and that full accountability will be the norm on how their oil money is spent. Promises and percentages from the PPPC and APNU are locked in a war for the upper hand. The expectation is that there will be more bright promises and more big percentages from both of the major parties between now and August 31st. WIN and Mohamed, on the other hand, continue to do what has been drawing fair to surprising crowds in most places that they visit. We at this publication note something curious unraveling. Whatever the leader of WIN promises, or doesn’t, wherever he goes the people still come out and want to hear what he has to offer.
The PPPC has done everything it could relative to his presence in this year’s election, and yet he keeps moving, and extending his reach. Like some unstoppable centipede, when a piece of his group is hacked off, it still goes on. Though he would never admit to such a condition, Jagdeo is at his wit’s end, running out of options. APNU and the AFC have largely stayed to the side in the PPPC-WIN quarrels. Undoubtedly, campaign nastiness will intensify as September 1st draws closer. The PPPC has proven its mastery of such ugliness.
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