Jagdeo says PPP willing to work with APNU over WIN

Sep 06, 2025 News

Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo

Kaieteur News – Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo said the People’s Progressive Party civic (PPP/C) administration is more open to work along with the Aubrey Norton led A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) than the We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) political unit led by businessman, Azruddin Mohamed.

He was at the time speaking to his weekly press conference held at Freedom House on Robb Street on Thursday.

For the first time in Guyana’s history, there is a major opposition to the PPP other than a coalition or the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR).

Jagdeo has advised that the PNCR returns to the drawing board and decide whether it is the “hatred” they have for his party that has caused them to stop thinking. “When a political party allows your hatred of the other to dominate your tactics and your strategy, political strategy, you will fail.”

The VP explained that, “You have to look at things dispassionately in politics, and they put all their eggs in one basket, the collaboration with Mohammed’s basket to bring down the PPP because of their hatred for the PPP, and that led to their undoing.”

Further he advised that when the party thinks about rebuilding, it should think of how to tackle that variable and how they will now relate to WIN. Even though he knows they will continue to hate the PPP, he made it clear that “there was room always for collaboration on national issues with APNU historically because we tended to have a more patriotic position. We always saw the territorial integrity and sovereignty of our country as inviable (sic), and I think we had a common understanding on that.”

Jagdeo went on to say that he is not sure about the WIN party because they are transactional and their “link with Maduro is still not fully explored. They refused to answer why the father went into the embassy up to now and they got away with it. So, we APNU has to do its own homework.”

The politician stated that he is not going to tell the APNU what to do, as this is something they should know, and the PPP had already signaled that they were going to become the third force in parliament. It was said to their leaders and even in the banter and everything else that was happening, “we have records of people texting them saying you will be and so we saw it coming. We saw it coming…what took place.”

He told the media that it did not come as a surprise, as on the night of the elections and even before a majority of the statement of polls came in, he has said that it was going to be a tough night for the opposition.

Jagdeo stated that the PPP saw this happening and now in a way he feels sorry for APNU, as they allowed their hatred for a party to cloud their good sense.

Meanwhile, the We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) party in its response, said Jagdeo statement is the “most stupid statement ever to date by Bharrat.”

In a post on Team Mohamed’s page on Friday, the party’s leader advised the VP to, “Go read the law, the constitution is clear. He knows that I will hold his rigged party to the fire, and to be accountable for their every action to ensure the lives of all Guyanese are better. I will ensure that every step I take is to make life better for all Guyanese.”

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