Hours after Leader of the Opposition and People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton made it clear that his party does not back the AFC-selected candidate to take up the Region Ten Vice Chair position. But Leader of the AFC Khemraj Ramjattan responded and said that Norton’s position is “bl**dy hell wrong.”
The AFC has nominated Correta Braithwaite- who is a long-term serving councillor for the Region representing the Alliance For Change.
Norton at a press conference on Tuesday said the APNU “decision makers” did not favour Braithwaite and added that the AFC was fully aware that the APNU was in favour of another person.
“The APNU has been disposed to an AFC Vice Chairman but it must not be somebody that is dictated by the AFC who doesn’t have the confidence of the APNU since they have to work together,” Norton said.
But Ramjattan said Norton’s statement basically dictates that the APNU wants to choose the candidate and warned that should this be the case there would be “consequences.”
“It is bl**dy hell wrong to go and say that they will select somebody else who might be AFC. We are going to await the outcome of this and I am absolutely certain that there are going to be consequences in the relationship with APNU,” he added.
Ramjattan made it clear that Braithwaite has all the qualifications needed to hold this position.
It was agreed upon in 2020 that the AFC would have gotten the Vice Chair position for Region Four (4) but the APNU who is the majority party in the coalition, later locked out the AFC from the Vice-chair position and instead Samuel Sandy was nominated by the APNU. But Ramjattan said this will not be the case this time and warned that there will be “consequences.”
