VIP Chairman debunks ‘rigging claims’ @ Congress
“I didn’t rig it. But I always study how I lose…So that when the time comes again, I could look on how to win…So I studied how I lost and I realized that this trip round I can’t lose again.”
The VIP Chairman was speaking at the party’s Annual Fundraiser, in observation of its 48th Anniversary, venued at the Cyril B. Romney Pier Park, on the evening of Saturday March, 23, 2019.
Hon Fahie, speaking to his win at the party’s Congress explained that his strategy was to work on the district councils and addressing the fact he had command only on four.
“Them up in the East I wasn’t getting them handled,” he said.
Deal
As such, Hon Fahie divulged that he devised a strategy using new Deputy Premier, Dr the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley (D7) who the ‘East-End’ people wanted as the party’s president.
“So I cut a deal quick and I tell them as long as you vote for me, I will get have the party to vote for him.”
Speaking to his climb up the rungs of the Virgin Islands’ political ladder, Hon Fahie used the occasion to reminisce on when he lost the first time he ran for the position as the leader of the VIP; “I continued to run…I can’t tell you I wasn’t a little sour…people do say Fahie just went ahead, again you lost!”
He disclosed too, “my own party at the time crooked me…Because all of them told me they were going to vote for me but when dem vote count up, when dem vote add up, Fahie on the losing side again.”
According to the party Chairman—now Premier of the Virgin Islands—“I knew something was wrong because when we went in the Congress, some of them who said they were going to vote for me, I been in politics long enough, I say ah ha, Fahie get humble here again.”
He said nonetheless, he had put that behind and was looking at moving on.
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