PNM political leader Dr Rowley believes the Tobago People’s Party (TPP) wants to win the two Tobago seats in the April 28 general election so that it can negotiate with the UNC to form the government and secure internal self-government for the island.

But he urged Tobagonians to reject the party’s candidates at the poll to prevent such a move.

“There are 41 seats in the Parliament, two of those in Tobago. Yes, there are those who believe that if they control those two seats they can make deals. But I can assure you, tonight, that even though they are being encouraged by those in the university and those in the media that the deals that they are making might make good sense, you, the people of Tobago, I want you to understand something very clearly, you have absolutely nothing to gain by handing the two Tobago seats to Kamla Persad-Bissessar and the UNC. Nothing to gain,” he said in his address at a political meeting at the Goodwood Secondary School on April 19.