Intent on contending for the leadership of the PNCR, Attorney-at-Law Roysdale Forde believes he would be the most suitable 2025 presidential candidate and that his professional defence of the APNU+AFC after the 2020 polls, amidst allegations of fraud and rigging will not negatively impact the electorate.
“I am an attorney, and the nature of my profession is to present a case or build a defence. Imagine accusing every attorney of being supportive of whatever the nature of the case they have taken on…,” he said in response to questions from the Stabroek News on his ability to win over PPP/C supporters, given his legal defence of the APNU+AFC. He reasoned that judging him for practising and performing legal duties was tantamount to saying, for example, that an attorney defending a murder accused “is supportive of [that client] or aiding in denying justice.”