Gary Griffith Calls For National Unity At NTA’s Final Public Meeting

Political Leader of the National Transformation Alliance (NTA), Gary Griffith, is calling for national unity. During the NTA's final public meeting on Wednesday evening, Mr Griffith said the NTA is here to represent people who are independent thinkers and voters. He called on citizens to choose their leaders wisely by voting for the best people to lead and serve all of Trinidad and Tobago. "I want to tell Trinidad and Tobago, unlike other political parties, we intend to unite this country, not divide. Politicians have divided Trinidad and Tobago for far too long." According to Mr Griffith, the idea being put forward by the United National Congress (UNC) that they are a coalition is not real. He suggested it is a ruse they are using to hoodwink people into giving them support. "What the UNC has done, deliberately, is to manipulate it to such a way that they have given these so-called smaller parties seats that the UNC has never won in their thirty-seven years in existence. So, what they have done is a cosmetic thing to fool you into believing there is a place for me and a space for me in a UNC coalition. It is not a coalition of interest; it is a coalition of Kamla's interest." Mr Griffith reiterated that all sixteen candidates standing alongside him in the NTA are law-abiding citizens with high ethical standards. "The things I have seen of persons putting $350 in a jersey and bribing people not to vote, giving people refrigerators and stoves – for God's sake, you tried that in 2020; you gave away six hundred refrigerators and stoves and still lost a marginal by two thousand votes. You come back with your nonsense again. If it is you who can operate in such an unethical manner before you get into government, imagine how they will operate when they get into government." Also speaking at the meeting was former Senator Nicole Dyer-Griffith, who pleaded for unity during this political season.