The PPP commits electoral suicide every day since the campaign began

Apr 10, 2015 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

I am told that there are all types of foreign consultants in Guyana doing work for the PPP’s election campaign. In the area at Turkeyen, where I live, people have told me there is a house about a minute walk from my home, where some American operatives are based.
The house is owned by the politician who built a swimming pool at Leonora and is managed by a Regent Street businessman who has the name of a once famous icon of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). I have been reliably informed that these Americans are involved in consultancy work for the PPP’s election campaign.
The opposition coalition unity team need not worry. Hypothetically speaking, a rapist will not win an election. A wife killer cannot win an election. A child molester cannot win an election. A party that puts up a fourteen-year-old candidate as president cannot win an election. Such is life. No genius can change that. If Einstein was alive today and he supports a candidate who was once jailed for pushing an old lady under a train, that candidate would fail.
Whoever are these American guys working out from the building near to where I live is for the press to investigate, but they cannot save what cannot be salvaged. The PPP stumbles from one mistake to another and these flaws are huge and humongous. Who advises Donald Ramotar?
Every day since this campaign began the PPP has been committing hara-kiri. If it is not an asinine blunder, it is an insane mistake or an immoral outrage. It doesn’t stop. It will not stop. It will last until the day of voting and it will disembowel the PPP. Even the so-called golden girl is not exempted. Elisabeth Harper, like Jagdeo, like Ramotar, will be the untergang of the PPP on May 12 when the ballots are counted.
For this column, we start with the announcement by Ramotar that if reelected he will establish an anti-corruption committee. What an imbecilic thing to say. What a self-destructive thing to say. It was best if Ramotar did not mention this thing, because it opens him up to extreme ridicule.
Corruption has destroyed the moral fabric of the entire PPP edifice. It began under Jagdeo and continued under Ramotar. The evidence is overwhelming. The overnight majestic swimming pools, the overnight mansions, the barefaced skimming off of contractors’ fees, the foreign bank accounts, the drug connections, the money-laundering activities, the sexual crimes associated with debauched lifestyles all provide evidence.
Yet from 1999 when Janet Jagan handed over power to the present time, not even one second level leader of the PPP has been dismissed or charged much less the sharks at the top of the pyramid.
Jagdeo, to justify this morbid ostentatiousness on the part of the cabal he created inside the government, pointed to the fancy house of Dr. Cheddi Jagan. In other words, Jagdeo was covering up mansions built with corrupt money by saying that even Cheddi Jagan lived in style.
Suddenly an election is on and Ramotar will set up an investigating committee if reelected. Even a donkey would turn to Ramotar and ask why after May 2015 and not before. But there are more laughs you can throw in the face of Ramotar by asking him what makes him want to look at corruption. Surely, something had to happen for him to want to investigate corruption after he is reelected.
Ramotar must have seen or heard about corruption to want to have it confronted after the PPP wins next month. If the answer is that Ramotar knows about corruption and it is bothering him, then this man has to be a complete fool to want to do something about it after a general election rather than before.
The emptiest simpleton in the world can tell Ramotar that he, Ramotar, stands to gain more by investigating corruption before the May elections rather than after. An election is around the corner, people are watching you, people want you to do good, decent things so they can vote for you. It is commonsense, then, that you do so. And it is almost scientific that when you do so, you will gain more votes, because voters believe you will be a better president?
There are only two reasons why Ramotar has descended to such a moronic level. One is that he is a stupid person who cannot see that anti-corruption action will gain him votes. Or alternatively, he thinks this nation is a pack of asses so they are incapable of seeing that he is conning them with his announcement of an anti-corruption committee.
Are Guyanese asses?