Leader of the Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) David Abdulah has described complaints and accusations coming out of the UNC’s internal election as hypocritical.
Addressing members of the media at a press conference, yesterday, at the MSJ headquarters in St Joseph Village, San Fernando, Abdulah said several executive members who are vying against Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar for the leadership of the UNC are crying “crocodile tears.”
While Abdulah said the UNC’s internal election is their party business, he said the MSJ wanted to comment on some public statements made by those contesting the leadership position in the UNC’s upcoming internal election.
“Current deputy political leader of the UNC, Dr Roodal Moonilal, and one of the contestants for the position of political leader said that members of the UNC have been hurt, disappointed, angry and upset by the fact that their party lost five successive elections,” he said. “Also there was a statement by Dr Gopeesingh and other persons in the party saying that the party has to be rebuilt, it has to be strengthened, the party’s institutions have to be created or put on a more solid foundation, words to that effect, that the UNC as a party has fallen apart.”
“Really and truly its quite hypocritical of these persons who had the responsibility either at the level of the executive of the party or in government and, therefore, being frontline leaders of the party in one way or the other to be now speaking about all of the ills and problems in the UNC.”
He added, “It’s really singing a tale of woe for which they themselves have to be held completely responsible for and their tears are really quite hypocritical, crocodile tears as the old people would say.”
Referring to Moonilal, Abdulah said, “Dr Moonilal can’t talk about the UNC losing five elections as if he was not one of the causes of the UNC losing those elections because of his own huge unpopularity in the country and his arrogance generally.” He said the MSJ is very skeptical that those offering themselves for the post can take the UNC back into government.
“So we want to say that first of all that they are all responsible for where they are, in a sorry mess and secondly we want to say that none of them whether it is Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Dr Tim Gopeesingh, Mr Vasant Bharath, Dr Moonilal or Dr Khan, none of them have legitimacy and none of them can take their party back into government again.”