Attorney General Basil Williams yesterday told reporters that he knew all along that 34 votes were required to pass the motion of no confidence in parliament on December 21 but chose to remain silent so that no one else on the government side would vote for it.
“This thing is tactical. For me it was tactical because I had, and we had information that something like that would happen with more than one person (on the government benches),” he said at a press conference.
“Look I wasn’t going to tell the PPP how much people they needed to thief or steal from the APNU+AFC government,” he said before brushing aside a question on whether government was prepared to steal a vote from the other side. “I have no comment on that but look, this is a serious matter because it is rooted in thievery and betrayal and to get the 34 votes, you have to poach on the other side,” he said before insisting that the opposition already knew that it had “contaminated” persons on the government side.
