The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

Brent Symonette, a multi-millionaire has now become the poster boy for Loretta Butler-Turner. It is a power play move and a last ditch effort by some Free National Movement members who want Dr Minnis ousted as FNM leader.

Mr Symonette is a former deputy prime minister of the Ccommonwealth of the Bahamas, but he has sneaked back into the limelight as the public relations side kick for Butler-Turner. He is all over the media making questionable statements.

Recently, he said that a survey was done that showed Butler-Turner was now more popular than Minnis. When pressed for the source of this survey, he was very evasive.

I have watched with utter disbelief as Mr Symonette’s public relations campaign has been unfolding. But what caused me to write this article was when Symonette made some disingenuous remarks.

He said that if Minnis is elected leader in July at the next FNM convention, he should not cause the dissident six Members of Parliament (MPs) not to be ratified as FNM candidates in the next general elections.

Remember that these are the same MPs who have publicly expressed no confidence in Minnis’ leadership.

In fact, the six MPs even drafted a letter to the Governor General to ask for the removal of Minnis as leader of Her Majesty’s Official Opposition. They wanted an early convention date and they succeeded.

Symonette served as deputy prime minister under the leadership of the Rt Honorable Hubert Ingraham and he should know that in politics you have to be “cut throat” when you have to.

I wish the reporter would have asked him what he thought Ingraham would have done if placed in a similar situation.

I wonder if Symonette would support the ratification of members who had no faith in his leadership.

Politically, this would be viewed as utter madness. I liken this to someone who has a gun to your head. They shoot but you are not mortally wounded.

You then get a box of bullets and tell the shooter to reload. This is insanity and Symonette knows it.

All the poster boys and girls are coming out now against Dr Minnis, but to date Symonette has proven to be Loretta’s brightest poster boy of them all.

DEHAVILLAND MOSS

Nassau,

June 27, 2016.