LUSIGNAN, EAST COAST DEMERARA – Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo lit up the People’s Progressive Party’s final rally at Lusignan Market on Saturday night, delivering a blistering attack on the opposition while declaring that the PPP is on course for a decisive victory. Addressing a sea of red-clad supporters, Jagdeo accused his rivals of corruption and dishonesty, charging that they had spent $419 billion without parliamentary approval and then tried to cover their tracks by spreading lies. “They went around telling Amerindians and Afro-Guyanese that if the PPP won, they would suffer,” he said to loud boos from the crowd. “They were lying then, and they are lying now.”
Jagdeo, who recalled standing at the same spot in 2020 as Opposition Leader and confidently predicting a PPP win, said he was even more certain today that the party would triumph again. “They are spreading fake news and fake polls, trying to say we can’t win outright. But I am telling you tonight—we will not only win, we will win with a sweeping majority,” he declared, his words greeted with thunderous applause.
The Vice President insisted that the PPP’s record speaks for itself, pointing to sweeping victories in local government elections and the steady expansion of the party’s support base. He argued that areas once loyal to the opposition have shifted, and that people who once campaigned against the PPP are now carrying its message across the country. “We remain the largest Amerindian party, the largest Indo-Guyanese party,” he told the cheering crowd, “and after these elections, I will proudly call us the largest Afro-Guyanese party too.”
Jagdeo accused his opponents of deliberately sowing division along racial lines, contrasting it with what he said was the PPP’s commitment to unity. “Every other political party is trying to divide our people, but this party works day and night to bring Guyanese together. Guyana will only achieve true prosperity if we go forward as one nation,” he said, stressing that the PPP treats all supporters like family.
As he closed his fiery address, Jagdeo returned to his central message of confidence and victory. “In 2020, I told you we would win, and we did. Tonight, I am even more confident,” he declared, pointing to the PPP’s investments in education, health care, housing, and job creation as proof that the party has delivered while the opposition only misled. His speech ended to chants of “PPP! PPP!” and the waving of flags, as the Vice President turned the rally into a damning indictment of his rivals and a bold prediction of victory on election day.
