Yesterday Member of Parliament for Marathon and the Minister of Education, Science and Technology, the ‘Hon. Jerome Fitzgerald, made a statement endorsing the current Prime Minister and leader of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP), the Rt. Hon. Perry G. Christie as Prime Minister and attempted to make a case as to why he [Perry Christie] should remain as leader of that political organization, needless to say a lot of persons were left stunned by his statement and reasoning but there seems to a simple explanation to it all; some within the Progressive Liberal Party have come to see Mr. Perry Christie as being the ‘brightest blub’ in that organization and I think to myself; what a sad state of affairs.

“Fitzgerald: Why I support Christie to stay on” – The Nassau Guardian (August 2^nd 2016)

Excerpt from this article; “Marathon MP Jerome Fitzgerald said yesterday he is one of the ‘new generation leaders’ who approached Prime Minister Perry Christie and asked him to stay as leader of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) because ‘we need certainty going into the general election and the country requires continued political stability.’

‘While the PLP enjoys the good fortune of having a deep bench with a cadre of leaders who are able to successfully carry on the baton, I was confident having spoken to many of the new generation leaders that we did not want the distraction of a leadership battle or a split in the party at a time such as this, particularly witnessing what was happening within the ranks of the Official Opposition,’ said Fitzgerald in a letter to the editor.”

The Minister of Education, Science and Technology really worries me with this endorsement and I am left to wonder if he is fit not only for the position as Education minister but also as a member of Parliament, as he continues to act in a reckless manner that goes against the best interest of the Bahamian people and to an extent the laws of the Bahamas. 

Minister Fitzgerald do you endorse Perry Christie to remain as leader of the PLP because you feel he is the right man for the job or merely because you feel the party ‘[needs] certainty going into the next general election’ and please do not intimate in any way that the PLP with Perry Christie as leader has offered and will continue to offer ‘continued political stability’, this suggestion within itself says that you have placed party above country and do not feel that you yourself are not intelligent enough to successfully lead the PLP party to victory, but then again you just may be right in your assessment of yourself.

We must all bear in mind that this is the very same man that plans to appeal Supreme Court Justice Indra Charles’ judgment against him, that he breached the constitutional right to privacy of members of Save the bays (STB) when he disclosed their private e-mails and financial details on the grounds that he did nothing wrong and wants to know how the court came to the conclusion that the information that he disclosed was obtained illegally.  Well Minister Fitzgerald, did any of the complaints at STB’s willing give you any off their private information and if not then exactly how did you come about this information?  As I said, just lacking in intelligence, so yes he just may be right and this just may be the reason that he as one of ‘new generation leaders’ would endorse Perry Christie remaining as leader of a party that has “a deep bench with a cadre of leaders who are able to successfully carry on the baton.”

The Progressive Liberal Party fails for one reason, it is their nature.

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