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Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Farley: Duke’s political career is dead

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TPP leader  Farley Augustine

TPP leader Farley Augustine

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To­ba­go Cor­re­spon­dent

To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) leader Far­ley Au­gus­tine says the po­lit­i­cal ca­reer of his for­mer al­ly Wat­son Duke is over and he’s ready to bury it on April 28.

Speak­ing at a po­lit­i­cal meet­ing in Cas­tara, Au­gus­tine said while he still re­spects Duke, the leader of the Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP), as a per­son, his time in pol­i­tics is fin­ished.

“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,” he said.

In the 2021 THA elec­tion, the PDP scored a 14-1 vic­to­ry over the PNM, dis­rupt­ing a 21-year reign. How­ev­er, in less than a year, there was a fall­out be­tween Duke and Au­gus­tine. The en­tire THA ex­ec­u­tive re­signed from the PDP and lat­er formed the TPP.

Au­gus­tine said the TPP was born af­ter Duke pushed out the same peo­ple who helped him build the PDP.

“We don’t for­get how he put we out, how you cuss we, how you say is your par­ty, and what you say goes, and that we must not have an opin­ion,” he said

On so­cial me­dia re­cent­ly, Duke linked the TPP lo­go to evil el­e­ments. Au­gus­tine de­nied this and said the in­spi­ra­tion came from a man he knew who drew the an­chor in the sand.

“So when I see the same mad­man some night go­ing on Tik­Tok, try­ing to re­duce our sym­bol to witch­craft, I want to say to him, the on­ly witch­craft I know is un­grate­ful­ness, and he’s the epit­o­me of un­grate­ful­ness and the Bible says un­grate­ful­ness worse than witch­craft,” he de­clared.

Au­gus­tine said when Duke de­clared the PDP his own he didn’t re­alise that “all the oil in the coil was leav­ing.”

He added: “And what he didn’t re­al­ize is when the pitch oil leaves the bul­li­fay can’t light. I re­al­ize he has aligned him­self with the PNM, but the bal­isi­er can’t light bul­li­fay and we con­tin­ue to stand on the side of oil, and in scrip­ture, oil rep­re­sents truth.”

Au­gus­tine while he would still greet Duke in pub­lic, he is no longer rel­e­vant to To­ba­go’s po­lit­i­cal fu­ture.

He said the split with Duke hap­pened be­cause he chose To­ba­go over par­ty.

“The great falling out hap­pen be­cause I have a firm po­si­tion that it must be To­ba­go over par­ty every sin­gle time, not some­times, not when you feel like, but every sin­gle time it has to be To­ba­go over par­ty.”

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