Failed presidential ambitions and a quest to remain relevant are behind the “attacks” by former Speaker Ralph Ramkarran on the PPP, according to the party, which yesterday said that his exit from its ranks after nearly 50 years of membership was “inexplicable as it was sudden.”
“One can draw no other conclusion as to wonder whether we would have had to wait at least another five years of silence had he won the Party 2011 Presidential Candidate nomination, and possibly the Presidency, for the disclosures he is now making,” the PPP said yesterday, in its first detailed statement on Ramkarran’s recent writings on the party, including serious charges that the party’s leadership has been compromised by corrupt interests.
“His profound vitriol against leaders of the PPP makes one wonder why was this not exposed when he was one such leader and contesting for the Presidency in 2011. Why was this aspect of his moral position not revealed during his bid for the Presidential candidacy? In fact, why would one
