Brazilian Governor was not campaigning – Robert Persaud

Jose de Anchieta Junior

PPP Campaign Representative Robert Persaud this afternoon said that the Governor of the Brazilian state of Roraima was not in Lethem to campaign for the PPP/C but that he had merely used the party’s meeting to bring greetings from the neighbouring state to the residents of Region Nine.

Persaud’s statement comes in the wake of mushrooming criticism of the presence of Roraima Governor Jose de Anchieta Junior and his delegation at the Lethem meeting yesterday and his statements lauding President Bharrat Jagdeo.

Diplomatic observers say it is completely out of