Opposition Splits as PNC Rejoins PPP After 65 Years — Lall

By GHK Lall- Why are Guyanese shocked that the APNU (PNC) threw its support behind the PPP to lockout WIN in Regions 8 and 10?  C’mon people, get some discernment.  The subtitles were already there, gave a preview of what was in the making.  Now, there is the proof emerging out of Regions 8 and 10, and look who is joining with whom.

Forbes Burnham walked away from Cheddi Jagan and the PPP a hundred years ago.  Now today, a century later, Burnham’s children are walking right back into the arms of Jagan’s offspring.  Clearly, Pres. Ali is making strides with his One Guyana motto.

One Guyana minus WIN, that is.  Given time, WIN itself may come around to the PPP corner.  It was one of the concerns, speculations, prior to the elections.  If the PNC can partner with the PPP, then anything is possible.  Like I said just now, Guyanese should have seen this coming.

Here was the first product, the early revelation from, of the elections’ environment.  The PNC did not compete.  The PNC did not fight with its all for the favour of voters.  Lackluster, it was.  Late to the ring of genuine competition, the record will show.

Lost and limping, as a check of the audios and videos will confirm.  The question I asked quietly, and later presented publicly: what was the PNC up to, engaged in, all about?  Three questions in one, but all pointing to a group that looked as if it was playing to lose.  No heart.  No spirit.  Don’t be fooled by the late blooming rhetoric.  And now there is the second bundle of proof -PNC’s crossing the floor and crossdressing with the PPP.  The first bundle was the giveaway.  Get ready.

Right after the results became final, there was Guyana’s one-man illuminati, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo: the PPP’s preference is to work with the PNC, and not WIN.  Say that again, please.  He didn’t have to, since I smelled the rat.  The odor was overpowering.  According to brother Jagdeo, the PNC has to get past its hatred.  My God, it did.  How it did!  I love it, full of Christian character, but also overflowing with political calculation.  In this time of lucrative oil opportunities, to be in the political wilderness is a daunting proposition.

The new PNC house leader, Dr. Terrence Campbell’s work in the National Assembly just became a cakewalk.  If in for the Regional Councils, then it’s in with the right turn into parliament, and merging into the same lane as the PPP.  A foregone conclusion, I assert.  Save for some noise to fool naïve natives.  After all, the MPs have to earn their pay, so a good show is guaranteed to be part of the parliamentary production.

Deputy Speaker for the PNC would be the first gift of thanks; just as was done for two others who drifted across the political floor of parliament and into the bosom of the loving, welcoming, PPP.  Wanna bet against these future developments, some farces in waiting?  I am giving nice odds.  Don’t worry about gambling license, since anything in this country now increasingly dominated by the PPP can be arranged.

Yes, I know there is the position of chairperson for Region 10 deadlocked and waiting.  From my perch, there is no deadlock at all.  Is there any Guyanese who foresees the Hon. Minister of Local Government casting her deciding ballot for WIN?  Ha ha! Ho, ho, ho, and a bottle of rum.  Make it a large, as the committed imbibers would demand.

This is not about the more things change the more they stay the same.  This is about the PPP and PNC linking arms to sabotage, derail, the WIN express training now losing steam, slowing to a crawl.  The PNC gets its moment of revenge for all those votes lost to WIN, and some piece of the oil action.  Recall that politics is about cooperation, so that there is consensus.

If collusion has to be part of that stew, aka quid pro quo, then that’s nothing new.  For its part, the PPP gets to publicise its financial muscle, its political sharpness in going for the jugular to neutralize budding threats.  It also knows how to locate the Achilles heels of others, and exploit that for advantage.  Jeez, this is a Greek tragedy.

I feel sorry for WIN’s Tabitha Sarabo-Halley’s cry: ‘APNU prefers PPP to WIN.’  Get used to it, sister.  Checkout that circle, Guyanese, elections wise old heads.  APNU prefers PPP.  And from Jagdeo: the PPP prefers the PNC.  It is perfect symmetry, my fellow Guyanese.  The PPP (Nandlall et al) said that I am a PNC man.  Now that the PNC and PPP are one, then that makes me a PPP man, also.  Thanks, but I prefer being a voice in the wilderness.