PNP Rally | Campbell predicts clean sweep of Manchester, St Elizabeth by the PNP

People’s National Party (PNP) general secretary Dr Dayton Campbell has sent a message to the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) that the party will sweep all eight seats in St Elizabeth, and the four in Manchester, a statement he made before thousands in Mandeville, Manchester, Sunday night.

According to Campbell, the prime minister should pay close attention to the parishes, “as the PNP will take a clean sweep of all the seats in St Elizabeth.”

St Elizabeth South West holds the record, since 1959 of always voting for the party that wins the election. It is currently represented by the JLP’s Floyd Green, who is the minister of agriculture.

“I hear the outgoing prime minister saying there are no safe seats. And I want to tell him from down in Manchester tonight (Sunday) Mr prime minister, keep your eyes on Manchester and St Elizabeth. Eight out of eight. We a guh clean sweep the parishes of Manchester and St Elizabeth…” Campbell predicted.

The general secretary also warned Comrades who will be working on election day to watch the proceedings like a hawk, making sure that the persons voting are the persons whose photographs are on the identification cards presented. According to him, the JLP cannot win the elections fair and square and so could resort to “chicanery”.

“Well I have taken a decision, and we have bought integrity lamps for every single constituency, so that we are going to train our indoor agents to take your integrity lamps, look pon de voter ID, look fi de security mark. Every single constituency that the PNP is putting up a candidate has been given their integrity lamp so they can look at the ID and make sure that the necessary security features are there and if you see somebody come inna de polling station and you know to God say, weh him seh him name, a nuh him name suh, we a guh bawl out…” Campbell told the large crowd in the mid-island town.

He said it was an offence according to Section 95 and 96 of the Representation of the People’s Act (ROPA) for someone to impersonate another person to vote.

“So Comrades, look out fi dem, because a one man one vote, inna dis yah election. Dem naah teef dis,” he stated, urging anyone planning to vote in another person's name to take it off their minds.

Campbell, who has marshalled the PNP troops from a dishevelled party following the 2020 general election wipe out, told Comrades that the PNP was putting up a man (Mark Golding) who was the poster boy for integrity, whose interest was service to the country and not for his own benefit.

According to him, it was not OK for the leader of the country to be facing issues of integrity when others are required to account for their financial actions, and must be certified noting that as a medical doctor, he must be certified by the Medical Council of Jamaica in order to practice.

The prime minister has had trouble with certification of his financials by the Integrity Commission of Jamaica.

- Erica Virtue

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