-says they are converts to `new religion of sanctity of contract’
While taking aim at the entire political leadership, analyst Christopher Ram has singled out President Irfaan Ali and Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo for failure to renegotiate the lopsided 2016 ExxonMobil deal and he said the two are now converts to a new religion `sanctity of contract’.
In the 150th instalment of his oil and gas column in the December 31st Stabroek News, Ram recounted how the two PPP leaders had signalled while in opposition that the oppressive deal would be revisited but had now surprisingly changed their tune.
He said that Ali’s and Jagdeo’s transformation from fierce critics of the 2016 Agreement while in opposition to its most ardent defenders in government represents more than mere political expedience.
