That's the word from UNC chairman Jack Warner. He raised the issue when he addressed scores of people at his constituency office in Chaguanas West Saturday.
Warner was re-elected chairman of the party in last Saturday's internal election, getting the highest number of votes (12,656) among all the members who were elected. The leader's post was not contested. That is scheduled for 2013.
The Works and Infrastructure minister said he does not know of anyone who is capable of filling the shoes of his leader, adding that anyone who contemplates running against her would be foolish.
Warner has always been one of Persad-Bissessar's strongest supporters. During the recent campaign for the UNC election he made that point clearly, noting that the team of "Kamla and I" is invincible.
In 2009 when Persad-Bissessar announced that she would run for the leadership of the UNC against founding leader Basdeo Panday, Warner, who was out of the country at the time, immediately endorsed her in favour of Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj.
Maharaj had campaigned with Warner in the Movement for Change for the UNC to call elections. However Warner stated that he was convinced that Persad-Bissessar was the right choice for leader and threw his support behind her.
Warner scored a landslide victory in that election beating the Panday candidate, Vasant Bharath, by more than 7,000 votes. Persad-Bissessar created history by defeating Panday 10 to 1 with more than 13,000 votes. She was the first person to challenge the leader of the party.
Persad-Bissessar had pledged to unite the opposition and beat the PNM in an election. With Warner's assistance she put together a strong coalition and within months of becoming leader, her People's Partnership won a landslide victory over the Manning PNM in a general election that Manning called more than two years ahead of time.
Warner has said repeatedly he has no interest in running for the leadership of the UNC. He has also pledged that in his new new term as chairman he will modernise the party and get it ready for Local Government Elections, due in 2013, and the general elections which is constitutionally due in 2015.
Warner scored a landslide victory in that election beating the Panday candidate, Vasant Bharath, by more than 7,000 votes. Persad-Bissessar created history by defeating Panday 10 to 1 with more than 13,000 votes. She was the first person to challenge the leader of the party.
Persad-Bissessar had pledged to unite the opposition and beat the PNM in an election. With Warner's assistance she put together a strong coalition and within months of becoming leader, her People's Partnership won a landslide victory over the Manning PNM in a general election that Manning called more than two years ahead of time.
Warner has said repeatedly he has no interest in running for the leadership of the UNC. He has also pledged that in his new new term as chairman he will modernise the party and get it ready for Local Government Elections, due in 2013, and the general elections which is constitutionally due in 2015.
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