Forgive this word but in the politics of the country these days, most things go. What a cocksucker move by Hubert Ingraham to chop Michael Pintard and stab him right in the heart by those words to the FNM faithful, telling them they must find a leader who can take them to victory. The video of the speech has gone viral and well what more can you say.
Let us though correct the record. This can only be done from public sources. Cecil Wallace Whitfield died on 9 May 1990. That was two years before the general election. What chance was there that he said on his deathbed that he could not win and therefore chose Hubert Ingraham as his successor?
He was a cancer victim. There is a myth going around that on his deathbed he announced Hubert Ingraham as his successor. That myth in part propelled Mr. Ingraham to the leadership of the FNM as Mr. Whitfield’s successor and brings us to today when Mr. Ingraham could make certain claims about Cecil Wallace Whitfield and what he said and believed. He put words in the mouth of Mr. Whitfield ex post facto it seems to us.
We say myth because there is no proof that any such thing happened or was said.
In fact, there is a counter narrative that says that the FNM faithful, among them the former Minister of Youth Algernon Allen who were trying to persuade Perry Christie at the time, at the behest of a dying Whitfield to become the leader of the FNM. It is said that when he demurred, they turned to Hubert Ingraham.
We will never know the truth.
Arthur Hanna, the former Governor General, used to say that he would not write his memoirs because too many people were still around in his lifetime at the time and he had to tell the truth and that would cause injured feelings.
We have no such qualms here.
The fact is Cecil Wallace Whitfield never said publicly that he could not win and therefore chose Hubert Ingraham as his successor. There is nothing in the public record of that. In fact it is more likely than not that Hubert Ingraham and the FNM won because in 1992 the country had grown tired of the Pindling tenure and wanted something new. If Ceil Wallace Whitfield had been alive in 1992, chances are he would have won.
Enough of the mythmaking
Finally a word to Michael Pintard don’t let this fella whose era is done push you to the side. Fight with all your might and certainly not for that fella in Long Island.
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