By GHK Lall- A few thoughts for Guyanese, eligible voters get express delivery. Thinking Guyanese may nod, even some in the ruling party, all citizens with some relationship to basic honesty. Amid all the clatter, clutter, and clamor, these thoughts may have merits, mean something. Off I go.
Ask the president, vice president, or any PPP minister one question and it is the same answer coming down from heaven with almost the same words highlighted. A bright mouthful of them. First, the simple question in two parts: what is there to recommend the government, why should Guyanese return the PPP to power? Here’s the compressed answer: Look at how good the PPP Government has been to all Guyanese, look how well Guyanese have done in the last five years.
I offer no comment, other than, hear ye, hear ye. Let’s have a big hand for the PPP. Conduct the same exercise with PPP apologists, propagandists, mystics, and they are all bursting with pent-up energy to sell the gospel according to the government -Guyanese never had it so good, as under this PPP of the last five years. Again, not a contrary word is whispered in the ear of any Guyanese. I do say, though, well done, good and trusted servants.
Now, things get sticky, murky. Since the PPP as a group, as a government, as piloted by sublime leadership, did so fantastically well, then somebody should explain to Guyanese voters, why they are all so tense, from leaders to ministers to propagandizers, as though grasping at straws, as if fighting for dear life. Why is there the appearance on Bharrat Jagdeo’s face of a man who is on the run, and who’s a portrait of desperation?
The man, this wisest of local political operators, should be oozing confidence; a leader quietly smirking, a campaigner publicly dismissive. Of the PNC. Of Mohamed I or Mohamed II or Mohamed the Other. Of 24 (or 19) political parties in the race, or 200 of them. There are now five outside of the mighty PPP. Since the PPP placed, if I may pilfer, all those ‘big, beautiful, baskets’ of riches at the Guyanese doorsteps, then the elections are over. One massive walkover, a grand yawner of a no contest.
To beat this horse silly, the September 1st elections would be seen as so one-sided, it’s a crying shame on those who show their faces, open their mouths. Like Norton and the PNC. Like Mohamed, crowd drawer, crowd pleaser. Since the PPP was so loving and caring to Guyanese of every stripe, every political complexion, then a father, or a mother, could turn to their neighbor (and neighbors to them) and celebrate how splendidly they have done.
How much better off they are, solidly comfortable, and confident about the future. With thanks for the great goodness of men like the unmentionable president, the incomparable vice president Dr. Jagdeo, the impeccable Attorney General Lord Nandlall, who honored the law and was about justice for all (none more than Exxon).
Considering all of this, the PPP ain’t gat no wurreez. No competition on the horizon. If ever there was an election with a clear, odds-on (5000 to 1), overwhelming favorite by a long furlong, it just must be the PPP of the road taken by Dr. Jagdeo. Jagdeo should be all deep smiles. Jagdeo should be well-positioned to take a public bet with Norton or the Young Contender and bet each one $100 million (if in US, so be it) that he will beat them to a pulp.
And that’s after he donates two of his seats to each of them. I call that the swagger of a champion, a daredevil of a leader, who knows that he has it all, did it all. Not for himself and his cronies. But for Guyanese. Because of having done so, Jagdeo could laff in the face of Norton, wave away Mohamed the Younger, and call off his nervous helpers. Those with overflowing energy wherever the young fella goes, and those lobbyists with too much brainpower over there in grim, bone-chilling Washington. Yeah, they take things seriously over there, often go the extra yard.
Since the PPP proved itself so magnificently with oil money and the people’s money, then it should be the winner by a slow canter. Why slow? Because the rest of the field is that far behind, how Jagdeo kicked them deep into the gutter, dumped them in the sewer. In fact, if I were Bharrat Jagdeo, I wouldn’t campaign at all. Waste of time, money, and energy, since all the PPP’s inspiring actions can’t be denied, can’t be diminished, and will deliver overwhelming victory, come September 1. Who can stand against the PPP? Note: not one hard or bad word said today against Jagdeo or the PPP. Blessings everyone.
