The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune,

Tomorrow is a critical day, not only for the FNM, but for the entire Bahamas. And, although the day will end with the FNM electing its leader to take the party into the 2017 election, whoever is elected will determine whether we will have an FNM government or another five years of going down the economic drain with the PLP.

Unfortunately, music and dancing seem to be the substance of the FNM convention with “Roc wit Doc” supporters urging that - after four years of abject failure as party leader – he be given another chance. Now, friend or foe, we are all Bahamians and we all deserve the best shot at the future. Why should Dr Minnis, although his friends might like him, have more of a chance than we as citizens have in the best little country in the world? Doc Minnis has had his chance and has failed - his only success has been to shatter what we knew as a once cohesive FNM. It’s now our chance and we want a strong leader, who is better and more politically astute to give us a chance of getting rid of this worthless PLP government that is dragging this country to destruction. We just don’t have time to “rock wit doc.” We have had enough of the Christie shuffle, we don’t need to rock with a politically inexperienced doc!

It seems that “Doc” has spent more time in his four years on the campaign trail moving from island to island in the Bahamas shaking hands for Friday night’s vote. It’s the delegates he was busy sewing up rather than fighting for our future. For four years we have painfully watched him stare like a deer caught in the headlights when time came for him to confront the government in a political argument. He then had the gall to later accuse his own MPs for not coming to his rescue and backing him up. Say, what! Isn’t the leader elected to lead his troops to battle, or were they there to carry him on their shoulders to the front lines? Come now Doc, be serious - admit that you are a political neophyte and take a back seat.

Then I read somewhere – I think it was in The Tribune — that a Minnis supporter accused former prime minister Ingraham of not, during his retirement, coaching Minnis in his leadership role! Say, what? Wasn’t it Doc Minnis who declared, as blood rushed to his head in his moment of victory: “The age of Ingraham is over!” It was in that moment that I realised that leadership had been put on the shoulders of a political infant.

If you Bahamians out there have any sense left don’t you wonder why so many PLP politicians are supporting our “rocking Doc”? Of course they want him to hang in there and give the much maligned Christie a second chance because a vote for Minnis means a vote for the PLP — and a vote for the PLP for another five years would mean the destruction of this once precious little country.

So delegates, regardless of what has been promised you for your vote, remember your country, and your children and grandchildren come first! Rocking wit Doc is not the way to go!

A FULLY AWAKE CITIZEN

Nassau,.

July 28, 2016.