Radio show caller asks why no questions to Dep Premier
“Do you know the reason why the Opposition has never asked the Deputy Premier any question,” asked the caller about seven minutes into the programme.
“No I don’t,” responded host Wheatley. The caller continued, “Do you realise that for the last three years of the Government in power and the Opposition never asked him a question?”
In response, host Wheatley said, “I wasn’t really aware but I think when you raise the question I think to the Virgin Islands Party (VIP), I think I started thinking about it and realise that I had not seen them asking him any question.”
Speculation has been rife about the Deputy Premier defecting to the VIP and that this must be the reason that the Opposition is ‘soft’ on him in terms of questions. However, during a sitting of the House of Assembly on December 15, 2014, he vehemently dismissed such speculation.
“A lady pulled me aside and whispered in my ear and asked me a question: ‘Dr Pickering what is it I hear about you leaving the NDP to join the VIP because they offer you Premiership?’ and I answered her in the affirmative…absolute nonsense! And I want to say it publicly…whether it is people in my organization saying it or outside of my organization,” Dr Pickering said during that sitting.
“Dr D. Orlando Smith and I have been working together since 1986 and we have been working together over the past 22 years on a daily basis. We went through some rough times in that operating room in the wee hours of the morning,” he said.
“Those who are perpetuating it and trying to cast aspersions on my character I want to say publicly, stop that foolishness. I ain’t going nowhere,” he said during the sitting.
“When Dr Smith leaves this country and the Government appoints me acting Premier he could sleep wherever he is. I am an original member of this organisation…I ain’t going nowhere. Ain’t nothing anybody could offer me. I want to make that clear and hope that this rumour dies down,” said Dr Pickering in a very agitated manner.
When a member of the public posed this question on the VIP’s Let’s Talk radio show some weeks ago, Chairman of the VIP Honourable Julian Fraser RA (R3) said it was mere coincidence, explaining that as Opposition members of the House of Assembly there is no comparing notes. He said further that they may ask what each other is asking about so that there is no duplication.
See our earlier article at this link:
http://www.virginislandsnewsonline.com/en/news/i-am-ndp-not-going-anywhere-dr-kedrick-d-pickering
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Plus he have some thing holding over the head of a certain VIP Minister!