We’re working to remove Minnis’- Rollins: FNM leader is incompetent” – The Nassau Guardian

Except from this article; “Fort Charlotte MP Dr. Andre Rollins said yesterday that he and ‘others’ are working on having Free National Movement (FNM) Leader Dr. Hubert Minnis removed as party leader before the next general election because he is incompetent and unable to lead.

While a guest on talk show ‘Freedom March’ with Rodney Moncur, Rollins said, ‘We’re organizing to remove any possibility of having Hubert Minnis lead the opposition into the next general election.

‘Dr. Minnis is, and I say this without trying to attack his character; because as I’ve said earlier, he may be by all appearances a nice fellow, but he is utterly incompetent as a leader.”

My first and most obvious question to Dr. Rollins is who is “we”?  I have given this statement some thought and to the best of my knowledge and someone please correct me if I am wrong, the only way to remove Dr. Minnis as the Leader of the Free National Movement (FNM) are;

1. Have another convection
2. Force him to resign
3. Have a vote of no confidence of him at the General Council level or
4. He dies; either naturally or unnaturally.

Barring any of these, the fact stands that Dr. Minnis has gone to convention twice and as won twice and to my knowledge, enjoys the support of most the Council; is Dr. Rollins suggesting that with months to the general election these persons have now changed their minds and would rather now go with a new leader?

If they were to go with a new leader, it is obvious that the only viable option would be the Hon. Loretta Butler-Turner MP for Long Island, whose credibility has recently been called into question by her most recent actions; along with the rest of the “Wayward 7”, none of whom could ever even be considered for the leadership position.

In my opinion the best plan to have removed Dr. Minnis would have been to set a plan in motion from the very first convention, wherein you and your other parliamentary colleagues that wanted him [Dr. Minnis] gone at that time, just simply ‘outshined’ him because if he was/is as incompetent as you all claim this would have been a simple enough to do, but yet they sat back and did nothing; not even to defend the party at the national level but now you seek to consort with ‘others’ to do what you have constantly failed to be able to achieve, and except the people to take them seriously.

It is indeed odd these ‘cries’ of no ‘confidence’, when the party has actually been on a steady re-building course in picking up some extremely formidable and viable candidates ahead of the next general election, while some along with ‘others’ simply sit back and openly criticized the party’s leader, accusing him of destroying the party.  This is very interesting indeed, and I feel that it is safe to say that the 7 along with ‘others’ have no faith in the work that has been done to date and the candidates that have been ratified.  Would it be wrong or irrational of me to intimate that the Wayward Seven’s actions to date have done more to destroy and hamper the party then Dr. Minnis has been accused off?

An interesting comment by Dr. Andre Rollins, who is known for his interesting comments; “…I could support him notwithstanding the fact that he is such a poor communicator, and that he is one who has zero debating skills.

But this is not the point; the point is that he has no interest in trying to fix the country because all he cares about is having the title of ‘prime minister’.”

Sometimes we are our own worst enemy.

END