PPP/C Prime Ministerial candidate Mark Phillips yesterday slammed the governing coalition which he said was running scared and desperate and he also took aim at APNU’s Joseph Harmon for saying that he was an ethnic token.
“One of their leaders Joe Harmon referred to me as African or black tokenism on the PPP list but comrades if you are to follow his reasoning he is telling you that all non-Africans on the coalition list are mere tokenism and we don’t believe that, we believe everybody have a right to support which party they want to support”, Phillips, a retired Brigadier and former Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) said.
Speaking at yesterday’s PPP rally at Albion, Phillips said that Harmon – who is also a retired GDF veteran – is worried and desperate because the PPP/C is not only speaking about racial harmony but is leading by example, as he then drew the crowd’s attention to his party’s list which he said is an example of diversity.
According to Phillips, despite APNU+AFC having several brigadiers of the GDF and commissioners of police among them they are afraid of “this one brigadier that come out of retirement and join the PPP/C, and them running scared”, he told the crowd to cheers.
Phillips then told the gathering that he was called “`Super’ in the GDF, that’s my war name. I am taking back my war name, I am the `Super’ for the PPP/C”, he declared.
