The Saga of Azruddin Mohamed and the Meaning of One Guyana

Nov 16, 2025 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

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(Kaieteur News) – For those waiting for a broadside at Excellency Ali, continue waiting. Guyanese have been told repeatedly that the hostility department is owned and controlled by the PPP of Drs. Ali and Jagdeo. If they were brain surgeons, there would be an aircraft carrier of mad people running loose and dangerous in this country. I insist that when the PPP Government is bent on hanging up the uncrowned Opposition Leader of Guyana, then there is one unavoidable result. Hanging up the We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) leader, the Hon. Azruddin Mohamed, hangs up Pres. Mohamed Irfaan Ali in midair, leaving him suspended between an oak at the heights, and a rock on the ground. His One Guyana programme suffers, suffocating slowly with 1,000 separating themselves first, then another 10,000 lost. Be careful, proceed wisely, my liege Ali. Not the way to go, Mr. President.

The We Invest in Nationhood captured 109,000 Guyanese hearts. Given what is happening to him, and the process of his finalizing and swearing-in, it is an investment of a disappointing kind. ALo, in and for a nation that’s best left to its old practices, tricks, and visions. It is where I am, from my place several furlongs deep inside the sideline. That’s me, but doesn’t have to be for other Guyanese. But what to do with 109,000 Guyanese who raised their hand, made their mark, and inked their finger for WIN’s Azruddin Mohamed? For those who have never seen a winner made so quickly into a loser, try studying the saga of Mohamed. Not Mohamed Irfaan Ali, but Azruddin Mohamed. He cannot even get to put his hand on the Koran and swear his oath. Yeah, it’s the real Guyana. Don’t forget who is in charge of the same Guyana. I keep saying the same thing frequently: it’s not the clothes that make the man. It’s what the man makes of his times, his opportunities, his potentials.

One Guyana, it was. One Guyana it still is, despite all the, er, ups and downs. If that is too heavy, then try despite all the additions and subtractions. A real stats man am I. I should have been at the Bureau. Then who would be left to enlighten Guyanese that when Azruddin Mohamed is strung along, then hung up, in effect, Dr. Irfaan Ali hangs his own vision and programme up on the tallest tree. The world of Guyanese watches on, and it sees what it sees. Time for some numbers to point out how the president stumbles, crumbles.

The WIN terror grabbed 109,000 votes. All Guyanese, not one foreigner, qualified or not. They may be largely PNC votes, but that does not strip any of them of their Guyanese identity. Therefore, I respectfully submit to Excellency Ali that 800,000 Guyanese minus 109,000 of them surely cannot be held aloft and held out as One Guyana. I took the easy route and left out the 70,000+ PNC votes, and One Guyana took another savage blow to that sensitive area in the vicinity of the groin. Sorry, Mr. President, but I owe it to the Guyanese people (and to the presidency) to call the situation as the situation is. There are no two ways about that, with another round of apologies laid at the president’s feet. Take note, fellow Guyanese: I leave hatreds and hostilities to the PPP. Of course, I hate what the PPP leadership does. But I cannot hate the men themselves, for then the worst of worshippers I will be. For emphasis: hate what they do, but never the men, however dangerous and odious they may be.

I continue with this Leader of the Opposition caper in parliament. With a seven-seat majority, there shouldn’t be a hung parliament. But there is the Hon. Speaker of the House tying himself into knots in his efforts to twist sideways; other unmentionable way to his disadvantage. Alexander the Great would bypass those knots. What’s the objective? What’s the standard? What are all those gymnastics and gyrations about? Why even go there? Who is the real intellectual author of this dirty, tricky chapter in Guyana’s politics? How does any of that add one body to the One Guyana masquerade band? Take a bow, Mr. Speaker, but don’t take those kinds of blows, brother.

An idea arises (still get those). Perhaps, Pres. Ali’s One Guyana amounts to 800,000 minus 109,000, minus PNC numbers, minus AFC types, minus Ms. Amanza’s army. Something is missing. Oh yes, minus the gangs of outcasts, undesirables, deviationists, and nonconformists. Ladies and gents, members of the diplomatic corps, the local aristocracy and paparazzi: after all the subtracting of offensive Guyanese, there is what I believe Pres. Ali’s One Guyana is. Hanging up Azruddin Mohamed, hangs up Mohamed Ali’s One Guyana solution. Hopefully, not final.

(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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• Azruddin Mohamed, GHK Lall, One Guyana, PPP Government

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