AFC exposed for trying to get voters to stay home

In a transparent effort to play its ‘role’, as exposed by David Hinds, the Alliance For Change (AFC), this week, in an appeal to voters in Region 6 – an area that has traditionally been a stronghold of support for the PPP/C – urged them not to vote on Monday, June 12, 2023 at the Local Government Elections.

AFC Leader, Khemraj Ramjattan, said, “Strike on them; stay home [on elections day] and let the PPP know that you have a mind of your own.”

Unable to muster a crowd for a public meeting, the AFC was restricted to a live programme of Facebook, where Ramjattan and the AFC’s General Secretary, Sherod Duncan; Deputy General Secretary Juretha Fernandes; and Vice Chairman Ricky Ramsaroop, failed to back up their call with any substantive facts.

Notably, David Hinds, March 2023, at a meeting in Atlanta, United States of America, exposed the fact that the AFC’s only use to the PNCR-led APNU was to “get Indian votes” for the APNU+AFC Coalition.

Hinds had said, “What we were in was an electoral arrangement with the AFC, Nagamootoo and Ramjat -