De­spite his in­ex­pe­ri­ence in the po­lit­i­cal are­na, Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment can­di­date for Ca­roni Cen­tral Adam Ho­sein is con­fi­dent that he can wres­tle away the seat from the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress.

Ac­com­pa­nied by for­mer labour min­is­ter Jen­nifer Bap­tiste-Primus and oth­er sup­port­ers he sub­mit­ted his nom­i­na­tion pa­pers at the of­fice of the Re­turn­ing Of­fi­cer at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Cou­va yes­ter­day.

Speak­ing af­ter with Guardian Me­dia, he said, "It was a very nerve-wrack­ing ex­pe­ri­ence. I was very anx­ious, but every­thing went well. It went smooth­ly." 

Ho­sein said the con­stituents are ready for change.

"We have al­ready start­ed cam­paign­ing since Oc­to­ber. We will con­tin­ue do­ing our cam­paign­ing. We will con­tin­ue reach­ing out to the cit­i­zens, the con­stituents of Ca­roni Cen­tral and we will let them know that we are here to serve them. The PNM par­ty is here to serve them, and we be­lieve that PNM rep­re­sen­ta­tion in Ca­roni Cen­tral will on­ly do bet­ter for the con­stituen­cy."

Mean­while, Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress can­di­date David Lee said he was ea­ger to con­tin­ue the work of his col­league, for­mer MP Arnold Ram.

Lee, who is the for­mer MP for Pointe-a-Pierre (now re­ferred to as Clax­ton Bay) said Ca­roni Cen­tral is a "com­fort­able" seat for the par­ty and he was con­fi­dent it will re­main in the UNC fold. As for his re­la­tion­ship with Ram, he said, "We were friends be­fore pol­i­tics, and we will be friends af­ter pol­i­tics."

Ram, who was among Lee's sup­port­ers at the sta­di­um, said he was hap­py that the par­ty chose Lee as his re­place­ment.

"I feel a sense of pride for him per­son­al­ly, and al­so that the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress is on its way to vic­to­ry on April 28." 

With both Re­turn­ing Of­fi­cer of­fices for Ca­roni Cen­tral and Cou­va South lo­cat­ed at the sta­di­um, there was a heavy pres­ence of both PNM and UNC sup­port­ers.

While there was the usu­al po­lit­i­cal pi­cong, the sup­port­ers, at one point, were seen danc­ing and laugh­ing with one an­oth­er.