Ferdie Ferreira was commenting on the divisions that have now been created in the PNM as a result of the decision by three members of the PNM caucus to vote with Manning in support of his motion to have his lawyer question witnesses at his hearing before the Privileges Committee.
The motion failed when 27 government members voted against it. However the matter created a rift in the PNM because all members did not follow the Whip's instruction to abstain.
Ferreira told the Newsday newspaper that Manning is getting to a state of desperation.
“It is unfortunate that the former Prime Minister should be sent to such a low level of desperation in an obvious effort to recover his badly depleted political stumps, which he so generously disposed of, without giving any consideration to what has now befallen him. It is the behaviour of a political alligator desperately fighting for his survival,” he told Newsday.
Ferreira said Friday’s development shows that Manning put his political survival ahead of the party, which he led for more than 20 years.
“It is a straight case of individual survival at the expense of our 55-year-old party,” he said. Ferreira added that no “selected, elected or nominated party representative” would have exhibited such indiscipline under Manning’s leadership.
“But like so many other dethroned monarchs, he will certainly carry some inexperienced, innocent victims with him. Manning or no Manning the party will survive,” he said.
Ferreira said those who supported the San Fernando East MP had brought “nothing to the party but themselves and will soon behave like so many others, nothing from nothing leaves nothing...They will become part of Manning’s glorious political exit,” he said.
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