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Monday, July 7, 2025

?Nizam warns Kam­la about COP 'jumpers':

?Panday just waiting for a mistake

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Par­ty lead­er­ships–in­clud­ing the UNC's–must guard against po­lit­i­cal "creep­ers and crawlers" who jumped the "queue" and en­tered a par­ty if its stocks were high, COP's Nizam Mo­hammed warned yes­ter­day.

Mo­hammed was com­ment­ing on the de­fec­tion of COP's Anand Ram­lo­gan to the UNC. Ram­lo­gan ap­peared on UNC's Tabaquite plat­form last night. COP leader Win­ston Dook­er­an, de­clin­ing to re­spond on the is­sue, said he did not know about the sit­u­a­tion and would have to ex­am­ine it. COP deputy Prakash Ra­mad­har, in To­ba­go, had no com­ment. Ra­mad­har laughed off the in­ci­dent at last Sun­day's COP uni­ty con­fer­ence when a mem­ber from the floor called on Dook­er­an to re­sign and let Ra­mad­har lead COP. But Mo­hammed yes­ter­day had stern re­marks for COP de­fec­tors. Mo­hammed al­so ex­pressed con­cern about COP's Mervyn As­sam who be­came a UNC Sen­a­tor last week. Mo­hammed said: "Up to sev­er­al weeks ago As­sam was on a spe­cial COP strat­e­gy team for the East-West Cor­ri­dor–meet­ing every Fri­day–and now he has up and gone to the UNC, knowl­edge­able of all of COP's in­for­ma­tion."

On the sit­u­a­tion re­gard­ing Ram­lo­gan, Mo­hammed added:

"There seems to be many front-line politi­cians who do not ap­pre­ci­ate the del­i­cate sit­u­a­tions sur­round­ing the uni­fi­ca­tion process of op­po­si­tion forces." Warn­ing against self-seek­ers, Mo­hammed said: "Such per­sons would jump the queue and over­take oth­ers who laboured hard to make their par­ty vi­able and at­trac­tive, cre­at­ing dis­af­fec­tion and sus­pi­cion both in the par­ty they leave and the oth­er they en­ter. "His­to­ry has shown such in­di­vid­u­als do not have the peo­ple at heart and are on­ly po­lit­i­cal op­por­tunists." Mo­hammed said UNC leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar must un­der­stand that her ac­tions were "un­der close scruti­ny," He added: "So she must first use peo­ple from the 13,000 who vot­ed her in­to lead­er­ship and then the UNC rank and file who have stayed the course with that par­ty. "It's pet­ty for her ad­vis­ers to en­cour­age in­ter­fer­ence by COP self-seek­ers or PNM apol­o­gists. "(For­mer UNC leader ) Bas­deo Pan­day un­der­stands the pol­i­tics bet­ter than every­one so they can go ahead but Pan­day is wait­ing in the slips.

"He knows such pet­ti­ness breeds spite. So if we aren't care­ful we'll lose every hope and op­por­tu­ni­ty of uni­ty and Bas will be back on top. Greed and am­bi­tion can pre­vent us get­ting any­thing off the ground." Mo­hammed added: "Some in the UNC have this be­lief they can get in­to Gov­ern­ment all by them­selves and this is so wrong. Re­mem­ber, the UNC has split three times–in 2001, with Dook­er­an and on Jan­u­ary 24." Mo­hammed said the UNC sent MP Win­ston Pe­ters and gen­er­al sec­re­tary Glen Ra­mad­hars­ingh to COP's uni­ty con­fer­ence last Sun­day. He added: "We saw a num­ber of oth­er UNC peo­ple present al­so and if things go right we can see a com­ing to­geth­er soon­er rather than lat­er but not with this kind of jump­ing over that cre­ates con­fu­sion."


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