Describing the press statement released by Alliance For Change (AFC) executive Imran Khan on Thursday as a “strategy,” outgoing party General Secretary Marlon Williams late yesterday afternoon said that he was still not in possession of a formal complaint about the alleged threats Khan has said he and his wife have received.
When contacted by Stabroek News, Williams, who heads the party’s Disciplinary Committee, said that he would be shocked if any party member goes down the path of threats. Ahead of today’s National Executive Conference (NEC), Khan, who is an Executive Member, claimed he and his wife have been threatened by a “thug” associated with a senior party official. He did not name the official or the person he identified as being responsible for the threats.
Efforts to contact Khan and party leader Raphael Trotman were futile yesterday.
“I have seen several press statements but I have received no official complaint,” Williams, however, said, before adding that the AFC is a robust democratic organ. “I am confident that we will continue along that path. The AFC started to rid Guyana of any Marxist-Leninist approach to things. The pillars on which we stand encourage robust discussion on any issue and I am confident that this is just brinkmanship…This is political maneuvering if anything,” he added.
