APNU leader David Granger was not the best choice for the presidential candidate for the APNU+AFC alliance, according to political analyst Dr Henry Jeffrey.
In his column in yesterday’s Stabroek News, Jeffrey said that while the alliance was a necessary condition if the PPP is to be defeated, to mitigate the negative consequences, he believes that significant compensation should have been made on the other side of the equation. According to Jeffrey, one of the most obvious concerns as it relates to the AFC and APNU forming a coalition, was that many of the Indians who, disillusioned by the PPP in 2011 and perhaps not expecting them to lose even if they did not vote for it,