If you want to know which party is about to lose an election, just listen to the one that is already bragging about winning the next one. Vice-President Bharrat Jagdeo’s recent pronouncement that the PPP/C is “well positioned” for 2030—while we are still slogging through 2026 is not a sign of confidence. It is the desperate whistling of a man trying to drown out the sound of his own house collapsing.
To be clear, the PPP/C is not “well positioned.” It is well past its expiration date. And Jagdeo’s premature victory lap is the clearest indicator that he knows the ground is shifting beneath him.
Why else would a sitting Vice-President be campaigning for an election five years away, unless he fears he cannot win The PPP/C’s playbook is tired; distract, deflect, and declare victory before the votes are counted. But Guyanese are not fooled. We see the potholes, the deaths, the corruption, the uncaring officials, the lies, the empty promises. We see the ministers who can’t manage a budget, let alone a ministry.
And we hear the voices that the party’s own loyalists are too afraid to say aloud; incompetent, corrupt, out of touch. When your own supporters; the ones who stood in line for you, who chanted your slogans, are openly criticizing your excesses and your failures in the streets and on social media, you don’t have a mandate. You have a recall notice.
Every single flagship project of this administration has either stalled, overrun its budget, or collapsed under the weight of mismanagement. The gas-to-energy project? A mirage. The new hospitals? Half-built or half-abandoned. The housing schemes? Still waiting for roads and water. Jagdeo wants to talk about “people-centred” outreach in Linden, but what about the people whose roofs are still leaking, whose children still can’t get a doctor, whose businesses are strangled by blackouts? What about the families of the 100+ MV Barima victims? When will they get compensation and justice? What about the Captain and crew arrested as scapegoats? When will they be given justice?
Jagdeo boasts that his leadership is “accessible.” Accessible for what? To hear complaints that will never be answered? The PPP/C has mastered the art of the photo-op: a minister holds a microphone, smiles for the camera, and then vanishes until the next election cycle. That is not accessibility. That is performance art.
And let’s not forget Jagdeo’s claim that the opposition became “aloof” in government. The irony is breathtaking. The PPP/C has been in power for over three decades in various forms, and yet they lecture us on “aloofness”? They are the original architects of aloofness; aloof from accountability, aloof from transparency, aloof from the daily suffering of the working poor.
So when Jagdeo tells us that the party is on “solid ground for 2030” and forecasts “surprising developments” by that year, I say; the only surprise will be if they still have a seat at the table. The truest sign that the PPP/C will lose in 2030 is not a poll or a pundit. It is Jagdeo himself, standing in 2026, trying to sell us a victory that hasn’t happened yet.
Because when a politician starts boasting about the future, it usually means they are terrified of the present. And the present says; Guyana is tired. Guyana is angry. And Guyana is ready to vote for competence, not clairvoyance.
The PPP/C’s 2030 campaign began too early because their 2026 reality is too grim. And by the time the polls open, Guyanese will remember; the only thing Jagdeo was ever “well positioned” for was the exit door.
