Imagine the leader of a political party, Nigel Hughes, pleading for you to vote for a minority government—so that he can claim to “hold the PPP/C government accountable” and disapprove national budgets brought before the National Assembly. In other words, he is asking voters to give him the power to stymie development, to block progress, and to reverse the prosperity gains achieved over the last five years. That is what he is essentially demanding. We have already lived through an era of minority government, and we know it was no good for our country, no good for development, and nothing but an impediment to progress.
Moreover, this is the very same political party that already had an opportunity to govern in coalition with the APNU during the period 2015–2020, and yet today has the audacity to speak about accountability. To now promote the farce of “opposition-led accountability through a minority government” is not only a hogwash conceptualization—it is hypocrisy. And it is coming from a political party with a well-established and damning track record when it comes to accountability:
• The very party that attempted to rig the 2020 elections—with Nigel Hughes himself admitting he needed to “study” the AFC’s role in that disgraceful attempt (still waiting on this study).
• A party that has existed for nearly two decades yet still has no plan whatsoever for national development.
• A party leader whose own spouse, while serving as a minister in the APNU+AFC government, awarded contracts to her own company—signing cheques from her ministry payable to herself.
• The same party that shut down sugar estates, putting over 7,000 sugar workers out of jobs—ignoring the advice of its own $50 million Commission of Inquiry into GUYSUCO.
• The party that spent more than $400 billion without a budget in the post no-confidence period—blatantly violating the Constitution and the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act.
• The same party that hid the US$18 million signing bonus, once again in violation of the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act.
• The party that presided over the most egregious fiscal and procurement breaches in recent history—over $200 billion in flagged violations by the Auditor General.
• A party guilty of flagrant procurement law violations, including the infamous $200 million “feasibility study” for the Demerara River bridge that produced nothing of value.
• And Nigel Hughes himself, acting as attorney for Booker Tate, who ensured that once his party came to government in 2015–2020, his client was pardoned from legal action in the Skeldon project fiasco—allowing them to walk away scot-free from their failures, while the PPP/C government had been seeking $4 billion in damages.
I can go on and on. This is the party now begging you for a minority government. Not to lead. Not to develop. Not to serve. But to sabotage. To derail. To cripple Guyana’s future. Guyana cannot afford to go back to that era.
We cannot afford Nigel Hughes’s politics of obstruction and betrayal. We cannot afford a return to corruption, to closure, to chaos.
𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱—𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵, 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀. 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝗹𝗶 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀.