Dear Editor,
It has been drawn to my attention that known APNU+AFC Facebook trolls, police and apologists who have established persistent track records promoting hate, racism and abuse on Facebook have taken to social media to use for their own political objectives what was said by me at a PPP/C public meeting at Little Diamond on the EBD.
The same individuals some real and/or fake, have jumped on a reference I made at the above-mentioned public meeting where I described the APNU+AFC symbol by way of a pun as a “pamkey.”
In articulating the pun, I intentionally mixed up the vowels and the consonants in “Palm Key”.
It was not my intention to give any other precise meaning to the pun “pamkey.”
For the sake of emphasis, the politically derogatory context which I gave to the APNU+ AFC symbol was in specific reference to the election symbols of the parties contesting the forthcoming elections. It was not meant implicitly or otherwise do with women.
If it came across that way to the more right thinking and politically sober individuals, it is to be regretted.
For the benefit of doubt, and to bring clarity to the mischief the APNU+AFC trolls, police and apologists are seeking to stir up, no linkage whatsoever was made between the derogatory remarks describing the APNU+AFC symbol and women.
I wish to emphasize that no disrespect to women was intended implicitly or otherwise in the pun “pamkey.”
The efforts by the APNU+AFC Facebook trolls, police and apologists to twist the message will not succeed.
The APNU+ AFC Facebook trolls, police and apologists must explain to the public what is meant by the call to supporters to prepare for the “night shift and to stay around polling stations after the close of poll.” Another top leader of the coalition is reported to have said that “if persons with pink slips don’t get to vote on elections day there would be trouble.”
The PPP/C is poised to win the forthcoming elections. And the APNU+ AFC Facebook trolls, police and mischief makers must come to grips with that reality.
Yours faithfully,
Clement J. Rohee
