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November 17, 2011

Former PPP Minister Henry Jeffrey Joins APNU

In a sign of the changing public consciousness of Guyana former PPP Minister Henry Jeffrey who was part of the government up to 2010 has joined APNU.


Jeffrey,like Nagamoootoo, is a seasoned political thinker and one who has served Guyana faithfully for decades. Jeffrey who started political life in the PNC and then left quietly for principled reasons later joined the PPP and was part of the cabinet from 1992-2010. Last year he was ousted from the cabinet and offered the post of Ambassador to Suriname. He refused this post and went back to teaching and research.


As far as I know, he never made any public comment on the reasons why he was removed from the cabinet.Now he has made public his new political views. The following is a quote from Stabroek News


"Jeffrey has endorsed the party[APNU] in his weekly column which is published in today’s edition of the Stabroek News. “Given my political stand, I must support the APNU because of all the parties, it comes closest to my demand for radical constitutional change to introduce a more equitable and participative governance arrangement,” he says. 


 Further, he says that the party has a good chance of preventing the PPP/C from gaining fifty percent of the votes cast if it is able to: “turn out every single traditional voter of its constituent parties; win significant quantities of Amerindian votes and strategically monitor every single polling place from the beginning to the very end of the election day process”.


Jeffrey is part of the group in Guyana who are willing David Granger and APNU to go beyond traditional Guyanese ' wiinner take alll' lpolitics and move beyond into a new political consciousness  which takes into serious account even the smallest grouping of voters.


As I have written in my article 'Looking at the Numbers' I strongly believe that APNU will easily get the majority of votes and together with AFC easily approach 60% of the electorate.APNU

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