APNU will do the groundwork to win in strongholds – Norton

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Monday said A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Coalition will do the necessary groundwork to maintain leadership of its strongholds in Georgetown.

Norton is also the leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNC/R), the major constituent of APNU.

“I want to assure you that we will do the work on the ground and beat the daylight out of the PPP,” Norton said in front of the Critchlow Labour College in Georgetown where party representatives submitted their list of candidates ahead of the June 12 Local Government Elections.

The PNC, and later APNU, have traditionally controlled Georgetown.

Norton believes that APNU’s candidates are a good mix of maturity and youth, capable of allowing the party to retain control of the city.

Youth Advocate Kibwe Copeland and former National Athlete Phillip Drayton are among the newer faces joining experienced APNU candidates such as current Georgetown Deputy Mayor Alfred Mentore.

Even as he touted the prowess of APNU’s candidates, Norton accused the People’s Progressive Party Civic government of coercing people into showing their support in the streets on Monday.

Large crowds, donned in red, marched through the streets of Georgetown alongside the party’s General Secretary Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo and other executive members. President Irfaan Ali also met supporters outside of Freedom House, the PPP’s headquarters.