Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) Po­lit­i­cal Leader Wat­son Duke has hit back at Chief Sec­re­tary and leader of the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty Far­ley Au­gus­tine, ac­cus­ing him of dis­re­spect and be­tray­al.

How­ev­er, he said it was up to God to see who would be cho­sen to lead To­ba­go.

This was af­ter Au­gus­tine vowed to "bury" his "dead" po­lit­i­cal ca­reer.

In a so­cial me­dia post on Fri­day morn­ing, Duke said, “Far­ley Au­gus­tine has shown him­self to be rude and dis­re­spect­ful—not on­ly to the peo­ple of To­ba­go, but al­so to the very man who gave him a chance to rise: Wat­son Solomon Duke.”

He re­mind­ed To­bag­o­ni­ans that he was the one who gave Au­gus­tine his start in pol­i­tics.

“It was Wat­son who be­lieved in him, who opened the door for him to be­come an as­sem­bly­man and 'chief sec­re­tary'.”

Duke said in­stead of grat­i­tude, Au­gus­tine had cho­sen ar­ro­gance and in­sults.

“But like many new politi­cians, Far­ley has clear­ly for­got­ten where he came from and who helped him get there. In­stead of show­ing grat­i­tude, he has cho­sen ar­ro­gance, in­sults, and be­tray­al.”

He warned that lead­er­ship is ul­ti­mate­ly de­cid­ed by a high­er pow­er, not by men.

“But God is not mocked. He rules in the af­fairs of men, and He alone de­cides who will lead.”

Duke told To­bag­o­ni­ans that Mon­day’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion was not just about choos­ing a par­ty, but fol­low­ing di­vine guid­ance.

“Mon­day is not just about vot­ing—it’s about di­vine guid­ance. It’s about To­bag­o­ni­ans go­ing to the polling sta­tions with clar­i­ty and con­vic­tion.”

He end­ed by telling vot­ers to watch and see whom God choos­es to lead To­ba­go.

“Let’s see whom God will ex­alt to lead To­ba­go this time.”

Duke’s re­sponse comes af­ter Au­gus­tine de­clared dur­ing a po­lit­i­cal meet­ing in Cas­tara on Wednes­day night that Duke’s po­lit­i­cal ca­reer was al­ready dead and that he would be buried at the polls on April 28.

Au­gus­tine said, “I am very much con­scious that God has al­ready out­ed the light on his po­lit­i­cal ca­reer. And come the 28th of April, we have to bury him and bury him dead be­cause there is no place here.”

Both Au­gus­tine and Duke are locked in a po­lit­i­cal bat­tle to see whose par­ty could wres­tle To­ba­go's two seats away from the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment.