By KHRISNA VIRGIL
Deputy Chief Reporter
kvirgil@tribunemedia.net
SOUTH Eleuthera MP Theo Neilly was yesterday noncommittal on whether he will offer himself as a candidate for the Free National Movement in the next general election.
He explained that it was too early for him to give any confirmations as he remains in talks with his family and representatives of the constituency association.
Asked is he could reveal when he would be ratified as a candidate for the FNM, he said: “No. I will say straight forward that I am going through a process now of meeting with my family and my association and together we will make a decision on what happens and the way forward. So as it relates to ratification there is a process regardless of what happens.
“I know the process of the FNM. Firstly an individual decision has to be made then you go to the association which is the ground and the foundation of the party and they put their recommendation forward on whether the person should be who it should be and who they wish to be the candidate. From there you go to the council, the executive council, the candidates committee before ratification.
“So ratification is the last step when we haven’t started the first step. So I can’t say no ratification regardless of what happens it won’t be immediately.”
He continued: “I don’t want to be a dictator and say yes. My family is a different regard but as it relates to the association I don’t know what their feelings and thoughts are.
“I don’t want to say without meeting with them and my family is a big factor in that as well so that would be the first step and then go to the association from there and figure out what their thoughts and feelings are.”
Mr Neilly was elected in the May 2012 general election with 1,781 votes, defeating the Progressive Liberal Party’s (PLP) candidate at the time Clay Sweeting who secured 1,686 votes.
Comments
Greentea 7 years, 9 months ago
Since this was his first term in office, I would like Mr. Neilly to share with the Bahamian people what he had learned these past four years about politics in the Bahamas, and the future of the country.
alfalfa 7 years, 9 months ago
So, he has finally spoken since going mute just before the convention. He did not say much, but it is more likely that he will offer, as Minnis has stated there is no victimization fallout as a result of opposition by Neilly and Co. He has been a fairly good representative of his constituency, which TRIBUNE, is North not South Eleuthera.
TalRussell 7 years, 9 months ago
If Comrade Theo doesn't want our Governor-General, yanking away his cherrished Royal Duke of Edinburgh’s Silver Award, he better have learned enough since 2012, to soon explain to his constituents, why they really do not need care about much about some very obscure stuff - like how he joined coup forces with Loretta and Montagu's Richard, to be drafting letters - to convince Her Excellency Dame Marguerite, to bully Minnis until he resigned Her Majesty's Royal appointment as leader Bahamaland's government in waiting?
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