PPP will not address Jagdeo’s comparison of his lifestyle to the Jagans’, Rohee says

Clement Rohee

PPP General Secretary Clement Rohee became visibly agitated yesterday when pressed by the media as to why no one from his party had challenged former president Bharrat Jagdeo’s comparison of his lifestyle to that former presidents Cheddi and Janet Jagan, much to the disappointment of their daughter Nadira Jagan-Brancier.

Jagan-Brancier in a letter to Stabroek News stated: “My parents, as is well known, devoted and sacrificed their lives for the betterment of the people of Guyana. They did not use their position for personal gains, which would have been very easy to do…they chose to live a very simple and comfortable lifestyle. They did not lead an extravagant life. Even when they were both presidents of Guyana they maintained the same simple lifestyle they had always lived before.”

Asked by Stabroek News, at the PPP’s weekly press conference yesterday, if the party did not have an