Prominent Linden Alliance For Change (AFC) party member Vladimir Glasgow has become the latest high-ranking official to tender his resignation from the party, citing that the party has lost its way and become consumed by the People’s National Congress (PNC).
Glasgow, who has been with the AFC for the past 15 years, tendered his resignation with immediate effect last Thursday. During his time in the party, he served as the Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice) Chapter.
He also went on to serve as an Executive Member on the National Executive Committee (NEC) for some years, and in 2015 when the coalition Government went into office, he was appointed as the Prime Minister’s Representative for Region 10.
In the resignation letter seen by this publication, Glasgow said: “I leave behind a record of my hard work, always working to the best of my ability to promote and model the values that have always been of utmost importance to those of us who devoted ourselves to the principles which our party was built on: honesty, integrity, fairness and transparency,” it noted.
He went on to state in the letter, however, that for the past four years, he has become convinced that the party leaders “lost their way” and became “consumed by the PNC”.
Glasgow’s resignation comes hot on the heels of AFC member and former Region Five Councillor Abel Seetaram’s resignation late last month. In his resignation letter, Seetaram had also cited the party having lost its way and being subsumed by PNC.
Former AFC Member of Parliament Audwin Rutherford also resigned in October of this year. He had also said that the AFC has lost its independent voice and with it, its principles.
While former Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson did not resign completely from the AFC, he did resign as General Secretary of the party following a fallout with A Partnership for National Unity (APNU).
His resignation came after the larger party once again bullied the AFC, this time to install its own candidate into the Vice Chairmanship position of the Region Four Regional Democratic Council (RDC). This happened despite an agreement with APNU that AFC would have its own candidate as the Vice Chair.
