As the signs grow that the government will challenge Friday’s successful motion of no confidence against it, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo joined the proceedings by stating yesterday that the Speaker of the National Assembly would have to consider whether the APNU+AFC MP who broke ranks was bribed and whether a majority in the House was 33 or 34.
In a Department of Public Information (DPI) news item, the PM offered no evidence of any bribery of APNU+AFC MP Charrandas Persaud which led him to vote against the government. Persaud has said he became disaffected with the government and was tired of being a `yes’ man. He has denied being bribed.
“If a vote in the National Assembly was procured by unlawful means to overthrow a constitutionally elected government, that will have serious implications and the Speaker (Dr Barton Scotland) will have to address that issue,” DPI quoted Nagamootoo as having said.
