To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) po­lit­i­cal leader Far­ley Au­gus­tine has re­ject­ed claims that his par­ty is aligned with the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC), dis­miss­ing a vi­ral voice note as “fool­ish­ness” and po­lit­i­cal mis­chief aimed at mis­lead­ing vot­ers ahead of the gen­er­al elec­tion.

Speak­ing at a po­lit­i­cal meet­ing on Fri­day night, Au­gus­tine said he had no in­ten­tion of re­spond­ing to the “mis­chief” be­ing spread by po­lit­i­cal op­po­nents. He not­ed that this was not the first time at­tempts had been made to link him to the UNC and ac­cused his de­trac­tors of us­ing new tech­nol­o­gy to repack­age old smear tac­tics.

“I do not care to re­spond to the fool­ish­ness, be­cause To­ba­go has se­ri­ous is­sues,” Au­gus­tine said. “They are short on ideas, they failed on de­liv­ery, so they must con­coct what­ev­er they think is nec­es­sary to dis­tract you.”