I gather that WIN’s Mohamed has tumbled the PPP into desperation zone. What I didn’t know was that the ruling party is so desperate, that it is frantic with panic. Azruddin Mohamed and Venezuela. Again. Top PPP players said that the government didn’t have a hand in, didn’t know anything of, what its hire of US lobbying firm, Continental Strategy did when it smeared the Guyanese. He is a Maduro puppet. What are those same top PPP luminaries now going to say, since it is the PPP that has published its slander about Mohamed and the Venezuelan Embassy? Only the PPP owns this latest scurrilous development. Desperate times drive men in desperate elections straits to utterly unhinged states, foaming schizoids. The gods do get it right, and on time, on occasion. Those whom they wish to self-destruct, they first allow them to make total fools of themselves.
America has had Guyana’s back with Venezuela. So also, the British, others from that continent, and the Canadians. Now, there it is that the PPP is tying bundle with Venezuela, behind the backs of the ABCE folks. Perhaps, it is timely for US Ambassador to Guyana, Excellency Nicole D. Theriot to make another of her rare public appearances, if only to express her country’s concern, and her personal sense of betrayal. She should be “upset”, if I may be allowed to steal a word from her.
I have heard and seen rum and other hard chemicals catapult men beyond the brink. This is the first time that I am seeing national elections deliver men and women to bouts of hallucination, convulsions in their footsteps, and palpitations of the flesh. I always thought that, with few exceptions, the good men and grand dames in the PPP were exceptional in terms of what is nefarious and obscene. But when Azruddin Mohamed touched down for the 2025 elections, the ruling cabal went into a headlong nosedive and uncontrolled tailspin.
It is a sign of how far gone the PPP now is. It did not put lashing and bashing the WIN man into the hands of its trusted shadowy cyberspace goon squad, Live in Guyana. Taking no chances, the government rolled out its biggest dog, the one with the biggest bark, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, former president, current president, and present party general secretary. ‘Mohamed has been seen visiting the Venezuelan Embassy, and on more than one occasion. There is evidence.’ Speaking for myself, it’s the type of evidence that the PPP bandies about, but which even its stooge police machinery would slink away from, with a negative shake of its head. That’s not evidence. Imagination is not evidence. Campaign exuberance is not evidence. Exciting for the political hustings, but meaningless and rather putrid for the bar, even one as shaky as Guyana’s judicial house.
I am shocked, and it takes a lot to do that nowadays, but I let my guard down, should have know better. Elections compel even a fella reportedly as seasoned and wise as Dr. Jagdeo to make himself look like a pitiful beginner. Think about this, fellow Guyanese. Mr. Azruddin Mohamed is either a raving lunatic, or a complete imbecile, to visit the Venezuelan Embassy not once, but on several occasions. My assessment of him from a distance is that he is neither. He has denied any Venezuelan connection, and in no uncertain terms. So, where does that leave Dee Jay, Dr. BJ, with his outburst in downtown Mahaica? But first, and more pointedly, where does that leave me in this Jagdeo caper involving Mohamed and Maduro (Venezuela)?
Based on my own long and largely negative experiences with Bharrat Jagdeo, and the huge holes in what he has put out before the public, I have to go with the new man on this latest episode in the Venezuelan affair. Jagdeo denounces, Mohamed denies. A bee whispered that it is not the last segment. In considering all of this-the smears, the sleaze, the sordid attempts to silence or neutralize Guyanese by the PPP-I confess that there is a terrible and tragic beauty to this country. An ugly beauty that highlights the deformities of a country now gone to the dogs, but which the canines refuse to eat, even lick.
It was legendary Green Bay Packers coach from America’s NFL lore, Vince Lombardi, who said: “Winning isn’t everything. Winning is the only thing.” The difference between Lombardi’s winning and that of the PPP is that he did everything to ensure that he won cleanly. I understand the PPP desperations. I think I can relate to the underwater party’s compulsions. I discern some of its mad visions, its people still madder ambitions. But not for elections. Never can, never will. Jagdeo and company brought this cyclone on their heads. Couldn’t have happened to some nicer people.
