Political leader of the Progressive Democratic Patriots (PDP) Watson Duke fully agrees with the Prime Minister’s call for fresh election on the sister isle and his condemnation of the Tobago House of Assembly’s Chief Secretary Farley Augustine and his executive.
In an “op-ed” statement posted on his Facebook page on Sunday, Dr Rowley said if Augustine and his Tobago People’s Party (TPP) members wanted to be taken seriously by the Central Government and Tobagonians, he should arrange an early election.
Duke in a Facebook live to his page on Monday, expressed his support, however, he labelled the PM as being “too weak…to withhold the cash and force an election.”
According to Duke: “We are currently in a position where Farley and his gang have hijacked the THA and there should be an election.”
Duke said: “I would not be taking my time to oppose Farley and them. Let Farley run, let him continue to deal Tobago unjust(ly)…It is up to Tobagonians to accept it or reject it, but your acceptance of this will signal to me and the national community, Trinidad and Tobago and the wider Caribbean, that Tobagonians are dotish.
He criticised Tobagonians for “hugging up and loving up” a leader who had represented one party, then claimed to be independent, then presented another party, when “both the independents and the other party have had no mandate at any election campaign to present to you.”
He said an act of fraud is being committed.
“It definitely means: what are you voting for? It means that what the man came in to do, he has abandoned, and he is now…says, support him. That is a fraud. I’ve never heard of it in the Caribbean or anywhere in the world where an entire Cabinet resigned and continued to hold power at the same time.”
He said Tobagonians now have one thing to do.
“Tobago, you have to trigger an election. They have reached their end.
WATCH Duke’s Facebook video here:
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