The Tribune

FORMER Free National Movement Chairman Dion Foulkes has endorsed Elsworth Johnson, the former president of the Bahamas Bar Association, who was ratified to run in Yamacraw for the party on Tuesday night.

Mr Foulkes had expressed interest in 2015 in running again in the eastern New Providence constituency, where he was beaten in 2012, and had been recommended for nomination by the Yamacraw Constituency Association.

“I remain totally committed to the Free National Movement and I fully support the leadership of Dr Hubert Alexander Minnis,” Mr Foulkes said yesterday.

“Last year, the FNM turned 45. We are now 45 years old. Our founders, and those who succeeded them, went through a lot over the years. Plenty sweat and tears, and even some blood. Many of us and thousands throughout our country have worked hard and suffered much for this great institution. We will not be moved. We will serve the Bahamian people another 45 years – and more.

“As the PLP continues to run our country into the ground, more and more people are realising that the only answer is an FNM government. It gives me great pleasure to endorse the candidate for Yamacraw, Elsworth Johnson. He has my full support,” Mr Foulkes added.

On Tuesday night, after he was ratified by the FNM, Mr Johnson suggested that the country’s judicial system is heavily saturated by “political interference” as he vowed, over the coming days, to disclose the “irregularities” present in this branch of government.

He went on to insist that political involvement has resulted in disrespect of not only this system but of judges, who are regarded as the highest and most distinguished officers of the court.