PPP to expose Nagamootoo’s ‘skeletons’ ahead of polls – Rohee

PPP General Secretary Clement Rohee yesterday said former party member Moses Nagamootoo had numerous “skeletons in his cupboard” that would be exposed in the lead up to any future elections.

Rohee was at the time dismissing suggestions that a Moses Nagamootoo-Nigel Hughes ticket for the AFC could pull votes from the support base of the ruling party, which was reduced to a minority government at the last elections.

When pressed by reporters at the PPP’s weekly press briefing at Freedom House, Rohee stated that many of Nagamootoo’s “skeletons” were extant while he was still a member of the ruling party.

“More have accumulated after he left, but some where there while he was there,” he said. “We have so much on Mr Nagamootoo… not

Clement Rohee
Clement Rohee
Moses Nagamootoo
Moses Nagamootoo

all has been disclosed as yet. Some has been disclosed but there is much more to be disclosed. So, just keep your powder dry and use it at the right time,” Rohee added.

AFC party leader Khemraj Ramjattan recently disclosed that he has endorsed a Nagamootoo-Hughes ticket for possible general elections, with Nagamootoo proposed to be presidential candidate and Hughes as prime ministerial candidate.

Ramjattan stated that when the AFC elects its leaders on October 24, he will not be in the running to vie for either position.

Rohee also stated that the PPP had yet to confirm that current president Donald Ramotar would once again be the presidential nominee for the PPP and explained that the party has not reached that stage of discussions as yet.

Observers are questioning whether the party will seek a different ticket given that Ramotar and Prime Minister Samuel Hinds led the party to its worst electoral showing since 1992.

 

Rohee remained mum over talks that Hinds may also be taken off the ticket and replaced with current Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett. He reiterated that the party has not discussed any changes to the current line up and refused to answer if he himself would accept either a presidential or prime ministerial nomination.

General elections are likely to occur in the first quarter of 2015 should the AFC’s no-confidence motion against the government be passed in the National Assembly later this year.