See letter by Haseeb Yusuf below:
After observing and analyzing the WIN party, its elections campaign, and its presidential candidate Azruddin Mohamed, I candidly proffer the following five (5) reasons why you should not cast your valuable vote in favor of WIN and its presidential candidate.
1. Azruddin Mohamed is totally unfit for the highest office in the land. He is delusional about becoming President of Guyana. His fantasy is born out of his inflated ego, which is boosted by the recipients of his charity who call him, ‘our president’. He is grossly uneducated and lacks the most basic leadership skills and experience. He is incapable of conceptualizing, understanding, and articulating any matter of national importance, such as, economics, politics, education, health, security, geo-politics, and international relations. He is a rich elite who is obsessed with authority, influence, power, luxury, and flamboyance. Furthermore, he absolutely doesn’t have the morality, integrity, character, and family life befitting of an exemplary leader. In fact, he doesn’t possess any of the prerequisites necessary for a leader or president. Azruddin’s involvement in politics is entirely for selfish reasons that have nothing to do with people’s well-being.
2. Azruddin’s WIN Party was hastily put together by his sister Hana Dmitriyev. WIN is the brainchild of Hana, who has long been fascinated with her brother’s social media following and fantasized of him becoming president of Guyana. The WIN Party was not properly conceptualized. It doesn’t have a philosophical or ideological premise upon which it is built. Moreover, it lacks the very basic elements and principles of an organized political entity, in order to be taken seriously. Additionally, its leadership is a loose coalition of the Mohameds, their associates, political opportunists, and disgruntled defectors from the PNC, AFC, WPA, and ANUG who are seeking a political home. WIN has very few persons, if any, with the vision, competence, and experience to form a government, a viable parliamentary opposition, or to become parliamentarians. Its activists and social media influencers are all hired, and its supporters are paid.
3. The WIN Party is shrouded in mystery, secrecy, and uncertainty. The fact that the WIN party is solely owned, led, managed, and financed by the Mohameds family, gives rise to many questions. Is this a bold attempt to introduce family dictatorship in Guyana’s politics? What precedence would this set for super-rich families in the future to buy their way to political power? Why are all the party’s activists and participants paid? Where are the party’s volunteers? Why have the party’s presidential candidate and activists refused to engage the press/mainstream media as not to outline their party’s policies and program, and answer questions? Is there something to hide or nothing to offer? Or both? When would the party announce its prime ministerial candidate? Were there clandestine contact between the party and regional and international powers? How will the party navigate the US sanctions on its presidential candidate? Is WIN just political adventurism or a shot in the dark? The risks and stakes are too high to take chances with your future!
4. WIN party activists have embraced an aggressive policy of abuse and slander against anyone who disagrees with them or supports the President and PPP/C. No one is spared from this absurdity, including respectable religious leaders and senior citizens. The latest victim was Shaykh A. Aleem, GIT’s leader. Furthermore, a vicious slander was peddled about the President’s mother, an upright lady of great standing in our society. They have set up these citizens to much ridicule by their social media fans. WIN must be punished at the polls for these evils.
5. The WIN party has made no secret of its intentions to create post-elections social unrest and chaos, if the election results doesn’t go in its favor. It is obvious that it is setting the stage for social unrest, by claiming that it has already won the elections via a fictitious poll, and that the elections will be rigged, without providing the slighest evidence. The Guyanese public already had a taste of the disorder and mob violence which was instigated following Adriana’s tragic death. We must avert this at all cost by expressing our discontent with its dangerous machinations by handing WIN a decisive defeat at the polls. Moreover, GECOM and law enforcement must be allowed to fulfill their mandate without hindrances and intimidation.