In the face of a continuing leadership imbroglio in the United Force (TUF), Manzoor Nadir yesterday denied suggestions from the party’s presidential candidate Valerie Garrido-Lowe that he was behind recent moves to unseat her as party leader.
Speaking to this newspaper last evening, Nadir said he unwillingly took back the reigns of TUF leadership during a meeting of the party’s executive on September 1. “I reluctantly agreed to take back the leadership of the UF because of what has happened over the past week,” Nadir said. According to him, Garrido-Lowe was “surgically removing” long-standing officers of the party; many of whom had been members of the party before her.
When contacted yesterday, Garrido-Lowe insisted she was still the leader of the party. She emphasized that she
