A former member of Grenada’s opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has severely criticised the party and its leader Nazim Burke, suggesting that the NDC could be headed for another defeat by the New National Party (NNP) when elections are called.

“The current perception, excluding ‘NDC Pharisees’, is that the NDC has started to degrade and that the much-feared ‘one-party state’ is being handed on a golden platter to the NNP by the NDC,” said William Joseph.

Joseph was chief of staff to former Prime Minister Tillman Thomas. He also was an NDC strategist in 2013, when the party lost all 15 parliamentary seats to the NNP of current Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell.

He resigned from the NDC in the run up to internal party elections in 2014, in which former finance minister Burke succeeded Thomas as head of the party.

According to Joseph, he left the National Democratic Congress because he “foresaw and declared that there was no realistic prospect of a successful Burke leadership” of the party.

“I resigned from the NDC prior to his election to signify my opposition to, and rejection of, his leadership,” Joseph said.

Under Burke’s leadership, claims Joseph, “the party is trudging in swamplands and sinking in the eyes of the public”.

He contends that Grenadians hear Burke’s voice “but do not know what is in his heart. There is no excitement; no inspiration; no expectation.”

At the level of the party, “the NDC’s public relations exposes a glaring lack of capacity and poor politics,” Joseph charged. “Unfortunately, they appear not to be following any protocol regarding, for example, the proper treatment of allegations; nor are they setting themselves any objectives.”

Joseph said unless steps are taken by Burke “to fix the politics of the NDC,” the party “will not prevail, leaving thousands of good NDC members and supporters, of all ages, with bleeding hearts.”

Source: Caribbean News Now