“Bitter”, “opportunistic”, and “misleading” were the words used by PPP/C campaign manager Robert Persaud to describe ex-party member Moses Nagamootoo who on October 27 again lambasted the party’s leadership at an Alliance For Change rally at Burnham Court.
On Friday at the party’s media briefing, Persaud debunked allegations made by Nagamootoo which suggested that the PPP “was corrupt” and did not have “high levels of internal democracy because it deliberately sidelined and bulldozed him out of the party” through “fraudulent means”.
He told media operatives that the allegations are obviously “untrue” and lacked merit, as he explained that Nagamootoo failed in everyone of his opportunistic attempts to secure support from the party’s supporters and leadership to satisfy his egotistic ambitions to become the presidential candidate for the ruling party and its leader.
“He is free to make his choices, but will not be freed from the consequences of his choices,” Persaud said. He maintained that Nagamootoo’s decision to “jump ship” is not surprising, stating that he did nothing for the party over the last decade and reiterated that the signs were there.
Asked whether or not the party has lost significant support with Nagamootoo’s exit from the PPP/C, Persaud responded in the negative, saying that his departure may have been a blessing in disguise.
He said that the PPP and its supporters will not be distracted by the “barren” cries of Nagamootoo who is in a state of political desperation and in search of new grounds to exploit. A stern Persaud explained that the PPP/C will continue to focus on winning the upcoming elections with a massive victory that will bring an instant end to the “machinations and political gymnastics” that Nagamootoo and the AFC, which has become the home of political rejects, are seeking to employ to gain support ahead of the November 28 polls.
Asked whether the party was concerned about statements made by the ex-party executive at the most recent AFC meeting, which sought to compare the PPP to “filth and defecation”, Persaud said that Nagamootoo owes the PPP/C members and leadership an apology.
Nagamootoo was quoted as saying in certain sections of the media: “A true son stands up to wrong in a house and I had decided that I was no longer apart of this defecated place, that they had turned it into almost. I would not say which house.”
“If what Mr Nagamootoo said is a true account as reported, he owes the members of the PPP/C party an apology. In fact, if that is how he viewed the members of the PPP/C, today we are much richer without him… much more secure… more stronger without an individual and a personality who has that weakness of character to make such statements against the members of the party”, Persaud said, pounding his hands on his desk.
Over the past few days, Nagamootoo has felt the brunt of criticism from longstanding members and supporters of the PPP/C for allegedly seeking to undermine the legacy of the party’s founder leader Cheddi Jagan to “score cheap political mileage on the AFC platform”.
“The PPP/C has a historical mandate that our founders and successive leaders have put on themselves… and that’s to unite the people of our country… and we will never falter, renege, or budge on our commitment and mandate,” Persaud said passionately.
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