“Butler-Turner suggests Hubert Minnis’ re-election would make party weaker.” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article;”Long Island MP Loretta Butler-Turner said yesterday if she is unsuccessful in her leadership bid at the party’s upcoming convention, the Free National Movement (FNM) would find it difficult to beat the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP).

‘I dare say that if we are not successful, the FNM will have an even harder challenge to take on the PLP ‘machinery,’ she said.

The PLP gas yet to turn on their engines and already we are left wanting.’

Butler-Turner, who appeared as a guest on the Guardian Radio show ‘The Revolution’ with host Juan McCartney, was answering a question regarding her plans should she fail at her second bid for leadership of the party.

Butler-Turner suggested that if she loses, she might be denied a nomination.

‘So I then will have to determine for myself where do I go from here’, she said.”

When you read these comments, you can only likened  them to the recent comments made by the Rt. Hon. Prime Minister, Perry Christie, leader of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP), wherein he gives his reason for not stepping down as leader of that party as being that it would fall into a state of disarray like what he claims is happening within the Free National Movement at this time. 

 With a comment like this and comparing the possible outcome of what may happen, Perry Christie not only attempts to deliver a political upper cut to the Free National Movement but also paint a picture of ‘doom and gloom’ for all that would even consider challenging him for the leadership of the party but also to those that would even think about asking for this resignation/retirement.  Of course we have now come to see that there a  few ‘brave’ souls within the PLP that totally disagree with him, with one even going so far as to call him delusional, so what would make Ms. Butler-Turner make such a pronouncement?

To tell the truth I feel only Ms. Butler-Turner can answer this question but with all respect due unto her by myself; it is a statement of pure arrogance. 

As Ms. Butler-Turner goes about putting on her Town Halls, claiming to bring a message of unity, she is also delivering a message of division when she suggests that ‘if she loses he might be denied a nomination’, certainly this has never been suggested by anyone within the party and such statement do nothing to bring about the possibility of unity.

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