Dear Editor,
Now that the date for the election has been set I am once again repeating my opinion and conviction that the only sure way to remove the PPP/C from office is to let the APNU pull out of the elections.
I support my call based on the fact that the APNU cannot win the elections by themselves and any coalition with the AFC would cause the AFC to lose all the East Indian votes, if not most of those they secured in the last elections. There are no ifs and buts; the PPP will tarnish them.
The AFC obtained their votes primarily on the basis that they would not affiliate with either of the two race-based parties – PPP/C and APNU.
Should the AFC team up with the APNU it will not add votes to the APNU and that will be the end of a promising alternative. Believe it or leave it.
With the APNU out, the PPP/C will no longer have their trump card – ‘if you want line up for goods,’ among other PNC-Burnham negatives. The PNC-APNU supporters will then have no alternative but to vote AFC, which will yet secure their past support and numerous more for sure.
Should this happen there will be a landslide victory for the AFC in the fashion of Sri Lanka lately and India as well recently.
In Sri Lanka the incumbent was accused of the same misdemeanours practised here, and he felt invincible, but was ousted. In India the Gandhi dynasty was shocked into defeat after feeling confident about being the birthright rulers as is the case here with the PPP/C.
Should the AFC go it alone that would be the only sure way of removing the PPP/C, thus the APNU has the future of Guyana squarely in their hands. It is about the welfare of the people and the development of the country, not which party or race governs. Judging from the dismal record of the two major race-based parties, a new untainted qualified group of citizens should be given the green light to government.
Creating jobs, reducing crime, reining in corruption, restoring order on the roads, curtailing noise nuisance, ensuring professionality in the police force and offering decent livable wages, are among some of the promises. It is all over to APNU; they either risk allowing the citizens to suffer more, or give them hope of a bright future. The future is in their hands. The AFC will then enlist the best available persons, obviously APNU personnel, to govern.
This option is guaranteed, while others are a gamble. The country and its citizens should alone be put above other considerations. Selflessness is required. No more of Guyana has the potential, but rather, Guyana is excelling.
Yours faithfully,
M Sookraj
