APNU wins all eight constituencies in...

Frompage3 aggressively tackling issues such as garbage collection a n d s o l i d w a s t e management, rehabilitation of municipality roads and drainage. On elections day Solomon said, I have done quite a lot in terms of ensuring we bring representation to the people of Amelia’s Ward and we have advanced many of the causes they may have in terms of seeing Amelia’s Ward as one of the largest communities in the Caribbean,”hesaid.

Relative to all the candidates,Solomonsaidthe APNU candidates are experienced professional and have Linden’s best interestatheart.

Meanwhile APNU Member of Parliament Jermaine Figueira said the victory was a sure one despite being disadvantaged financially compared to the PPP/C. HeaccusedthePPP ofusingtacticsto‘buyvotes with the cash grant distribution, football promotion and strategic contract distribution to identified communities These were however welcomedhesaidsinceitput food on the table of many households.

“The campaign was executed with some challengesbutthecampaign teammanagedskilfullywith much help and support from a lot of ordinary Lindeners, both home and abroad who assisted the campaign by sharing the information and messagesofthecampaignin t h e i r r e s p e c t i v e communities, social gatherings and on social media platforms The collectiveapproachofmany inwhateverwaycontributed and helped significantly to the overall success of the campaign. Our people are intelligent voters and not political gamesmanship, threats or bullying could not deter them on how to exercise their franchise,” he said.

Meanwhile Bishop Juan Edghill despite the loss said who said it is a monumental victory for the PPP for securing 2464 votes compared to the 402 votes receivedin2018.

Edghill said he is quite happy with the number of persons who showed up and voted for the party This marked a more than 500 percentincreaseinvotes.

“As much as we did not win these elections, we are quitehappywiththeamount ofpersonsthatshowedupfor us, it clearly shows, that the redwaveinLindenwasnota manufactured crowd, it was real people who was participatinginademocratic process to bring about real change,” he told Kaieteur News. Edghill said that the government will continue to supportthemunicipalityand since 2020, visible to the eyes, on a daily basis, were interventions from central government for Linden and wewillcontinuetodoso,”he said Similar sentiments were shared by leader of the list Dr Shurland Murray who said the council should workwiththegovernmentof the day to see Linden gets whatitdeservesandthatthe town gets the best service, expertise and the developmentitdesires.

Murray also said the massive increase in votes shows ‘trouble’ for the Opposition as it was in their stronghold.

Murraysaidthepartyhas not yet decided who the two representatives will be but whomever is chosen will be those who will fight for the interest and the needs of Linden and the party will focus on development, accountability and effective leadership.

“Weareherenottobuild walls nor to raise resistance but to build bridges and that is what we are doing and as leaderofthelist,Iwillensure we enforce that and we will continue to push to see this townbecomethepearlofthe nation.