Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) leader Wat­son Duke says he will not stop fight­ing for To­ba­go, de­spite his par­ty’s fail­ure to se­cure a seat in last Mon­day’s gen­er­al elec­tion.

“We will not stop un­til To­ba­go wins. We will not stop un­til all ah we win To­ba­go,” Duke vowed in a voice mes­sage post­ed to so­cial me­dia on Sun­day night.

Duke, whose PDP can­di­dates lost in both To­ba­go East and To­ba­go West, said the par­ty will con­tin­ue push­ing to rep­re­sent To­ba­go—whether in the next gen­er­al elec­tion or at the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly.

“Now that elec­tions are over and the two in­di­vid­u­als from the East and the West have been se­lect­ed by To­ba­go, we in the Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots must con­tin­ue to look for our day, look for our open­ing,” he said.

Duke thanked sup­port­ers who turned out to vote and those who helped him cam­paign across the is­land.

“I say thank you to those per­sons in To­ba­go East and To­ba­go West who went to the polls and vot­ed,” he said. “I want to say a par­tic­u­lar thank you to Cur­tis Dou­glas, who stood by my side as we cam­paigned through­out the East and To­ba­go West, mak­ing known our plans for a To­ba­go we all have to win.”

He praised his cam­paign team for go­ing in­to “the high­ways and the by­ways of To­ba­go, the nooks and cran­nies, spread­ing the mes­sage of the peo­ple… of a bet­ter To­ba­go, of a To­ba­go we all must win.

Duke al­so said he was grate­ful for a peace­ful elec­tion.

“We are ex­treme­ly thank­ful again for the en­vi­ron­ment where To­bag­o­ni­ans can go out and ex­er­cise their fran­chise freely, with­out be­ing ha­rassed, with­out be­ing pro­voked, with­out be­ing cursed. We must nev­er take these things for grant­ed.”