“We’ll always work day and night to ensure your concerns become our policies” – PPP General Secretary – INews Guyana
General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Bharrat Jagdeo, this evening, assured that his party is committed to ensuring that all of the concerns of Guyanese are addressed during its next term in office.
“You know that our party will always be on the side of the people; that we’d always work day and night to ensure your concerns become our policies,” Jagdeo told supporters at a massive Election Rally held at Stewartville, West Coast Demerara.
He said that on September 1, the party is looking to secure a huge, decisive and overwhelming victory, but this can only be possible with citizens’ support.
Heading into the upcoming polls, the General Secretary acknowledged that many Guyanese are convinced that the PPP/C Government did its job over the last five years and have heard the party’s plans for the next term to change lives, communities and the country – from cash grants, increase in pensions; more money for children; support to build homes or buy lands or improve homes; plans for communities – better drains, lights, security camera, garbage collection; more and better paying jobs, better trasportation and improved services like healthcare and education.
According to Jagdeo, persons have been assured that these will be accomplished because the PPP/C has demonstrated that when it promises something, it delivers.
Jagdeo said not only are supporters convinced of the PPP’s impending victory, but so are its political opponents, and this is evident in their change of rhetoric. The PPP GS reminded of the events in 2020 when the APNU/AFC regime attempted to steal the elections but the party took them on, rising to every challenge and defeating them – something they are ready to do once again.
“Now, again, when defeat is staring us in the face [from] the APNU (A Partnership for National Unity) and WIN (We Invest In Nationhood)… These two kangalangs that they have, [Aubrey] Norton and Azruddin Mohamed, have changed their language now.”
According to Jagdeo, Norton has threatened that there will be problems in the country if his party does not win the upcoming elections. Similarly, Mohamed, who is sanctioned by the United States for gold smuggling and public corruption, has claimed a poll shows that he will win the presidency and that there will be trouble in Guyana if he doesn’t.
“But if we dealt with [former president David] Granger and his cabal, we can deal with these two kangalangs any day… I want to promise them that in case they try to create trouble when they’re defeated by this massive victory by the PPP, they are going to get into big trouble.”
“The security forces are ready to take on anyone who tries to disrupt the peaceful polls in these upcoming elections,” Jagdeo declared.
The General Secretary ridiculed his party’s political opponents for threatening the whole country just because they have witnessed the massive support that the PPP/C is attracting in every region it goes.
“You have to be mentally ill to say you’re winning in Region Six when you got a rally with 200 persons and the PPP had 25,000 there… You have to be mentally ill if you go to Parfaite Harmonie and fetch some people and get 300 people there, and see this massive rally here [today] in Region Three and think you’re winning too…”
“And so, we have to be careful about these people. They are losing it now,” Jagdeo declared.
On this note, the PPP General Secretary emphasised the importance of the upcoming elections, stressing that everyone has a stake and should think about what their lives would have been like without the PPP/C in office over the last five years.
Noting that citizens already had a taste of this in 2015, Jagdeo urged Guyanese to head to the polls on September 1 and ensure the PPP/C return to office to continue delivering development to the country and its people.
