People’s National Movement (PNM) leader Dr Keith Rowley says he will wait for the outcome of the latest fight developing between the United National Congress (UNC) and its former chairman Jack Warner before commenting on the issue.
In an interview with the Sunday Guardian yesterday, Rowley said Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar did not “misspeak” when she said Warner did not finance her campaign.
“Some people think she just plain and simply lied, so it is up to her and her associates to join her in any lies or tell us the truth,” he said.
“Former chairman and confidant Jack Warner said he can prove that once again she is not telling the truth, so we await the outcome of this episode.”
Rowley said the UNC was now trying to distance itself from the same man who “fed and nurtured” them. Rowley was the first to call for Warner’s removal from Government when the People’s Partnership took office in 2010.
Rowley was on the record as saying Warner’s affiliation with Fifa should disqualify him from holding ministerial office. Rowley even threatened back then to write to the Integrity Commission about whether Warner’s dual role was a conflict of interest.
But in recent times, Warner seemed to enjoy better political favour, even meeting with the Joint Trade Union Movement over labour legislation.
Yesterday, Rowley said they treated Warner with the same respect accorded to all parliamentarians, but Warner received no special favour from him or the PNM.