Richard Lord

Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment Dr Kei­th Row­ley says while the re­cent state­ment by his pre­de­ces­sor, San Fer­nan­do East MP Patrick Man­ning, is un­clear, he did not ask for any apol­o­gy from him.Row­ley was la­belled "a rag­ing bull" and "a wa­jank" by Man­ning, who al­so sacked him as trade and in­dus­try min­is­ter in 2007.Man­ning at a news con­fer­ence on Fri­day, called to break his one-year si­lence, apol­o­gised to all whom may have been dis­en­fran­chised or wronged when he was prime min­is­ter.Row­ley said yes­ter­day he was "not par­ty to what had been said (by Man­ning) but what has been pub­lished are very un­clear to me."

Row­ley added: "An apol­o­gy is a very per­son­al thing, It is per­son­al to the per­son who is of­fer­ing it and I am not in a po­si­tion to ad­dress what you are ask­ing, not be­ing par­ty to any specifics."Row­ley, who is al­so Op­po­si­tion Leader, al­so told re­porters at his Charles Street, Port-of-Spain, of­fice:"There is no gain­say in the fact that I have been fea­tured pub­licly in mat­ters which I con­sid­er my­self to have been wronged but I sought no apol­o­gy from any­one."Row­ley said in all in­stances he "pros­e­cut­ed my de­fence where pos­si­ble and I moved on, so I am not go­ing to be pur­port­ing to want to in­ter­pret any apol­o­gy from Mr Man­ning or any oth­er per­son."

Row­ley said Man­ning re­mained MP for San Fer­nan­do East and had ac­cess to the Par­lia­ment to raise and com­ment on any mat­ter that at­tract­ed his at­ten­tion.