VIP motorcade rolls on "PPA nerves"
One of the At Large members, Natalio Sowande Uhuru Wheatley, was in the middle of his presentation when the noisy motorcade rolled passed and drowned out his voice. He was then forced to pause for some 15 minutes or so. It then seemed to play out like a battle of the music as the PPA turned on its jingle that still could not measure up to the volume of the opposing jingles.
But as the music from the “never-ending” motorcade eased down, Mr. Wheatley made his way back to the podium and resumed with the words “I am not going to criticize the Virgin Islands Party or any other group but it is not about how much noise you can make. When the verdict is out we are still going to have to go to the supermarket and afford the cost of living, when all the noise is over when two and three raindrops fall we still are going to get flooded out, when all the noise is finished, brothers and sisters we still going to have to go back to put some money in the treasury. So we don’t mind the noise,” Mr. Wheatley said amid cheers of approval from the more than 30 supporters on hand.
Mr. Wheatley then had to battle with more loud jingles as the backing up of traffic caused a particular sound system to remain longer than usual and supporters had to endure the lyrics for At Large candidate Zoe-Walcott-McMillan.
“On Monday November 7, you make the right choice, not for who has the biggest motorcade brothers and sisters, who has the best jingles or the most posters. You vote for your children and your children’s children. We are going to bring unity to this Territory, no more division between green and white and red and blue. We finish with the division brothers and sisters,” Mr. Wheatley shouted over the microphone.
Earlier he had said people needed to stop voting based on who they believe would win but rather should vote on principles. “Unity is not enough because the Krips and the Bloods are unified but you have to vote on principles. This is a group that stands on principles that is why we are four. I prefer to stand with four people standing for what’s right than four hundred people going in the wrong direction.”
Meanwhile, Mr. Roy Hodge, who did a poem at the rally, also spoke against the loud motorcade, which interrupted the proceedings at the Sunday Morning Well and labelled it as “disrespect”. Other PPA supporters were also loud in their condemnation.
The National Democratic Party (NDP) is scheduled to have its motorcade today.
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