Aug 25, 2026 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

(Kaieteur News) – I think that the Hon Leader of the Opposition (LOO), Mr. Azruddin Mohamed, blundered. Three Local Govt seats in hand. One went to the Hon Ms. Amanza Walton-Desir’s Forward Guyana Movement. Good! The second should have gone to the APNU. Would have been reflective of long-term thinking. Indicative of strategic positioning. Mr. Mohamed erred twice.

For sure, there’s some bad blood over the GECOM seats. Them being held, despite the optics. Despite the September 2025 numbers. Also, there has been disconnections and disagreements over governance in the regions. Individually or collectively, these aren’t de minimis matters. In contrast, there’s that vision, the ultimate objective. It is to change the power dynamics four years hence. A fragmented opposition is no opposition. It’s the dissipation of all energies. No two ways about it; no revisiting nor amending of that reality. I think that Mr. Mohamed, as the new LOO, had a golden opportunity to present a different kind of leadership. The kind neither seen nor heard nor known in the annals of this country. He slipped. Lost some ground. He needs allies, not more adversaries.