Dear Editor,
The Jagdeo cabal has chosen lawfare because winning in the marketplace of ideas at the ballot box clearly isn’t suitable for today’s PPP, which supports limitless rape of our wealth by EXXON, out of control public corruption and the unconstitutional silencing of opposing voices. It’s no surprise that that this latest legal assault comes after the recent general elections during which less voters turned up compared to 2020.
Things are not regular. First the PPP Government contracted a lobbying firm , Continental Strategy at a cost of US$50,000 per month to target who is a Guyanese citizen. So a foreign entity is being paid US$50,000 by the Guyanese taxpayers to target a Guyana citizen while 48 percent of the Guyana languish below the poverty line .
In July 2025 , documents filed by a US lobbying firm, Continental Strategy, with the US Justice Department had revealed an email documenting “draft tweets” about Mohamed and his presidential run, linking him to the Venezuelan Government. A total of five draft tweets were included for use by the Congressman. This email formed part of the public filings with the US Justice Department for the lobbying firm. The five “draft tweets” all target Azruddin Mohamed and linked him to Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro, some of them describing him as a “Maduro puppet”.
Thereafter , you have , US Congressman, Carlos Gimenez, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida issue one tweet for US$50,000 against Azruddin Mohamed and linking him to Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro, describing him as a “Maduro puppet”. “This was political persecution and election interference at the highest level in Guyana’s history by the US. The latest tactic is now to have a corrupt court in Florida to indict Azruddin Mohamed before he enters parliament. This explains why the resumption of parliament is being delayed
The egregious and norm-shattering lawfare weaponized by the PPP against Azruddin Mohamed is unprecedented. This reminds us of the same lawfare against Donald Trump in 2022-2024. And a closer look at the legal tactics employed by PPP shows similarities with the Democrats lawfare against Trump and shows just how sinister of a threat this is to Guyana’s rule of law. During 2022-2024 in New York, President Trump faced a two-pronged attack. Manhattan Democrat District Attorney Alvin Bragg issued the original indictment in a case so absurd that even the Washington Post’s liberal editorial board called it a “shaky” case. In the end, a corrupt Manhattan jury found Donald Trump guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records in his hush money criminal trial (porn star stormy Daniels) , an unprecedented and historic verdict that makes him the first former president in US history to be convicted of a felony. At the same time, New York’s Democrat Attorney General Letitia James teamed up with Democrat Judge Arthur Engoron to try to put the Trump Organization out of business. Recall that James campaigned on targeting Trump. She said that going after him was her primary motivation to run for office and that she’s got her “eyes on Trump Tower.”
Like the Democrats here in the USA, the PPP has opened up a dangerous Pandora’s box by breaking legal and political norms to try to imprison its chief political rival Azruddin Mohamed for 2030. It is irreparably harmful to the fabric of Guana to normalize the reigning political party using its power to lock up its main challenger. And make no mistake about it: It’s no surprise that the culmination of this legal assault comes after the recent general elections during which less voters turned up compared to 2020.
If we continue going down this road, there’s no going back . If the PPP can weaponize a foreign court to illegally target Azruddin Mohamed , what can and will they do to the average Guyanese?
Yours truly
Dev Persaud
