Garrido-Lowe says will resist ousting attempts

The padlocked gates of Unity House, The United Force headquarters yesterday. Some party executives alleged that they were locked out, in the latest chapter of an ongoing leadership dispute. (Anjuli Persaud photo)

Valerie Garrido-Lowe says she will remain the leader of the United Force and would dispel attempts by rival executive members of the party to oust her from the position.

Garrido-Lowe told this newspaper by phone from the party’s base at Unity House yesterday, “As far as I am concerned I was elected to the position of party leader on May 29 by the executive of the party when Manzoor Nadir stepped down as leader.” She said too that she will not “pay attention to the whole sham of a meeting which they called without my presence or knowledge” and she accused Nadir of being the