AG foresees PPP joining APNU+AFC
Aug 18, 2016 , http://www.kaieteurnewsonline....ppp-joining-apnuafc/
Chairman of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Basil Williams, stated at a press briefing hosted at the Party’s Headquarters in Sophia yesterday, that the Party believes that the Main Parliamentary Opposition – the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) will “come” to the Coalition eventually.
PNCR Chairman Basil Williams delivering his remarks at the Party’s Headquarters in Sophia yesterday.
Williams made this statement as he was responding to queries pertaining to the Party’s 19th Biennial Delegates Congress which is scheduled to kick off next week Friday.
Williams who is also the Attorney General and Minster of Legal Affairs, told the media that while the Opposition has its work to do, ‘you can’t get carried away with what they are doing,’
He added that the A Partnership for National Unity and Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) Administration is committed to democracy and inclusivity and is still open to having talks with the opposition on matters that are of importance to the development of the State.
He added also, that the PPP/C ‘still’ believes that they can divide the country by race and get back into Government. He made reference to the recent utterances made by the Leader of the Opposition, Bharrat Jagdeo in New York and the PPP/C’s campaign trail leading up to the General Elections last year May.
“We are not interested in those things we have always been inclusive as a party, the branches of our Palm Tree have always included all the ethnicities and all people of this country. We are the ones that always strove to have inclusive governance and we brought those parties to APNU and we were able to bring in the AFC into the realm, and we believe that the PPP, they’re going to come…they’re going to come and we don’t want them to come kicking and screaming, they must come of their own volition when they see the benefits of inclusiveness,” Williams posited.
Meanwhile, when quizzed on the PNCR’s involvement in Government and whether its supporters and members are satisfied with the work being done so far, Williams responded that most of the hierarchy of the party are Ministers within Government, and based on the feedback they would receive on their journeys, the members are happy.
General Secretary Oscar Clarke, who was also present at the briefing, told media operatives that the PNCR’s membership has grown from 6000 to over 10,000. However, he intimated that the groups have not been functioning the way they should. He said that the groups are not meeting.
