National Transformation Alliance (NTA) political leader Gary Griffith says he choose St Joseph for several reasons including the fact that he spent half of his life in St Joseph and had been nominated on three occasions to represent the constituency. He says that the persons who wins the St Joseph constituency generally wins the general election:
He says he believes that his announcement of running for the St Joseph seat has triggered the panic button being pressed by the PNM, and h believes that it is a marginal seat that is critical and needs to be fixed: