For­mer deputy po­lit­i­cal leader of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Nafeesa Mo­hammed, who first backed the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) in 2020 af­ter decades in the PNM, is dou­bling down ahead of to­mor­row’s gen­er­al elec­tion—de­clar­ing she will not vote for the par­ty due to its record of weak gov­er­nance.

“I can’t wait to vote. My fin­ger is my weapon, and I am not vot­ing for the PNM. And I make no bones about that,” Mo­hammed said dur­ing a tele­phone in­ter­view with the Sun­day Guardian on Wednes­day.

Mo­hammed blast­ed the PNM and the par­ty’s leader Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s han­dling of the repa­tri­a­tion of 97 na­tion­als locked in camps in Syr­ia and Iraq. She said a com­mit­ment was giv­en by Row­ley to bring these peo­ple home, but two years lat­er, they are still lan­guish­ing in camps in the two con­flict zones and liv­ing in in­hu­mane con­di­tions.