PPP Executive Member Clement Rohee yesterday said that the serious charges made that the party’s leadership has been compromised by corrupt interests are designed to influence its upcoming congress.
“Reading recent articles, especially in the Sunday Stabroek, you would recognise that there is a certain prolific writer who is hammering away at the PPP, to which he once belong[ed] and the congress, in particular. The objective, it would seem to us, is to influence the outcome of the congress,” Rohee said, in a clear reference to former PPP executive Ralph Ramkarran, who he did not identify by name.
Rohee was speaking at the party’s weekly press conference, held at Freedom House, in response to the various criticisms that the party has significantly strayed from the ideology of founder leader Dr Cheddi Jagan. However, he stated that the questions being asked and the