PDP po­lit­i­cal leader Wat­son Duke has con­firmed his sup­port for Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine, leader of the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP), ahead of the Jan­u­ary 12 To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tions.

Speak­ing at a news con­fer­ence at the PDP head­quar­ters at Port Mall this morn­ing, Duke ac­knowl­edged what he de­scribed as Au­gus­tine’s short­com­ings but em­pha­sised the im­por­tance of fam­i­ly and sol­i­dar­i­ty.

“Be­cause at the end of the day, fam­i­ly is fam­i­ly,” Duke said. “As bad as Far­ley is, doesn’t an­swer your phone some­times, tell you one thing and do the next thing some­times, he’s still fam­i­ly. We have to stick to­geth­er un­til we get it right. So I’ve said to him when he called me re­cent­ly, I said, boy, look, I’m here. (0:42) Let me sleep on it.I slept on it. I rolled on it, I prayed on it. But I said, you can­not aban­don fam­i­ly un­der no cir­cum­stances. So I’m here to tell the pub­lic to­day that Far­ley has my sup­port.”