Dr Hubert Minnis.
By SANCHESKA DORSETT
Tribune Staff Reporter
sdorsett@tribunemedia.net
FREE National Movement Leader Dr Hubert Minnis said he is “confident” that the FNM will be the next government of the Bahamas despite the party’s internal struggles.
Speaking with The Tribune on Tuesday, Dr Minnis said the FNM will not be “distracted” or “deterred” by sideshows and “those who do not want the best” for the Official Opposition.
Dr Minnis said the FNM is concerned with one thing: rescuing The Bahamas from “Hurricane Christie”.
Last Wednesday, the FNM appointed a three-person tribunal to decide the fate of Long Island MP Loretta Butler-Turner and the six other members of Parliament who ousted Dr Minnis as leader of the Official Opposition in the House of Assembly earlier this month.
The party accused the group of MPs of bringing the party into “disrepute, division, rancour and dishonour” as well as signing, delivering and causing a letter expressing no confidence in Dr Minnis to Governor General Dame Marguerite Pindling to be read in Parliament.
The FNM’s council has also withdrawn Mrs Butler-Turner’s candidacy for Long Island and ratified Adrian Gibson, 32, an attorney and Tribune columnist, for the seat.
“Of course the FNM will win, I am still confident that we will be the next government of The Bahamas,” Dr Minnis said yesterday.
“We are focused and we are determined and we will move the PLP and rescue The Bahamas from Hurricane Christie and the devastation of the PLP. The people like us, they know we are focused and they believe in us. We will remain focused. Those other people are the least of our concerns. We do not get involved in sideshows. We are a serious organisation and a serious political party.”
After becoming leader of the Official Opposition, Mrs Butler-Turner appointed talk show host Rodney Moncur, along with former Senator Monique Gomez and political newcomer Jude Knowles to the opposition’s Senate bench. She has also appointed Democratic National Alliance (DNA) Leader Branville McCartney to be the leader of opposition business in the Senate.
When asked about the Senate appointments, Dr Minnis said: “They are not FNM senators.”
“I am the leader of the FNM. I never selected them. They are not FNM senators. I am not concerned about what they are doing. I am concerned about what is happening in the country, unemployment, crime and the economy. I am not concerned about that sideshow.”
Dr Minnis once again urged Bahamians to “get out and register to vote” to rescue the country from the “inept PLP, a regime that has been responsible for bringing this country to the brink of disaster and financial ruin”.
Comments
Economist 7 years, 10 months ago
To win the election you need to show us how you will fix the economy otherwise you are no different from the PLP.
Alex_Charles 7 years, 10 months ago
Wold someone just put out a policy platform to correct our mess and STFU about these grandiose claims? Let the people decide, just make your case and SHOW us the plan. FFS it's been almost 5 years.... bring out the policy platform already
Well_mudda_take_sic 7 years, 10 months ago
The corrupt greedy dimwitted Minnis is counting on people like the commenters "Economist" and "Alex_Charles" above believing they have no choice but to vote for him and, therefore, by default he will win the next general election just as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow. Sadly, the corrupt greedy dimwitted Minnis does indeed stand a 1 in 20 chance of being our next PM because of these same idiots who are so desperate to find someone/anyone they can cling to as if it will somehow bring them salvation. Meanwhile Minnis is sitting pretty on a US$28 million pile of cash from his Red China friends for his efforts to throw the next general election the way of Crooked Christie and the corrupt PLP.
licks2 7 years, 10 months ago
Ha hahahahah. . .you really take yourself too serious. . .you're spoiled and showing ya petty feelings. . .with no chance of anybody "bothering with your self-pity" by showing facts or reason! Just think how you can help this PM selection process by using the "obvious" story of knowledge you have. . .we see his faults. . .but to continue to be like LBT talking fool don't help us when we need to listen to your informed opinion. . .just give us the facts and sound reasoning please. . .them other "ghost moves" thinking keep them fer LBT group on this site. . .heheheheheheheheheheehehe!
sheeprunner12 7 years, 10 months ago
HAM must put out his 2017-22 Plan of Action if anyone will even begin to give him a chance to beat the PLP Gestapo machine and the LBT/Moss/Bran/WeMarch/Gatekeepers (Third Force)
HAM has said enough since the Coup ........... he has to look and act decisive as the undisputed, undefeated FNM leader .............. he is the best of the PM contenders options
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