Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) can­di­date for To­ba­go West Sham­fa Cud­joe is call­ing on the par­ty’s sup­port­ers to pay at­ten­tion to peo­ple who have not made up their minds on which par­ty to vote for come Au­gust 10.

Speak­ing at the par­ty’s cam­paign meet­ing at Ma­son Hall on Wednes­day night, Cud­joe said the par­ty’s sup­port­ers should stop “preach­ing to the choir”.

“We move from vil­lage to vil­lage every day, some­times we’re preach­ing to the choir but I am say­ing there is a group of peo­ple...that need some more mas­sag­ing, so we do have some work to do,” she said to loud ap­plause from the crowd.

She said one view of un­de­cid­ed vot­ers is that all po­lit­i­cal par­ties are the same.

“Kam­la (Per­sad-Bisses­sar) in pow­er is cer­tain­ly dif­fer­ent from Dr Kei­th Christo­pher Row­ley in pow­er,” she said.

She drew ref­er­ence to a state­ment by de­ceased To­ba­go states­man Arthur NR Robin­son when as Pres­i­dent of the coun­try he was faced with the de­ci­sion about who should gov­ern the coun­try fol­low­ing an 18-18 tie at the gen­er­al elec­tions.

She quot­ed the PNM’s To­ba­go East cam­paign man­ag­er Wen­dell Berke­ly on the is­sue. Berke­ly said Robin­son in­di­cat­ed the rea­son he al­lowed the PNM to gov­ern the coun­try then had to do with the PNM’s moral au­thor­i­ty over the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress.

She al­so rub­bished the view held by un­de­cid­ed vot­ers that any Gov­ern­ment in pow­er is “ob­lig­at­ed” to do spe­cif­ic tasks, so they need not vote to de­cide the next gov­ern­ment.

The Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs said she re­mind­ed an un­de­cid­ed vot­er that the gov­ern­ments of Ja­maica and Bar­ba­dos are not pay­ing for their cit­i­zens’ ed­u­ca­tion.

PNM To­ba­go West can­di­date Ayan­na Web­ster-Roy al­so touched on the un­de­cid­ed vot­er is­sue.

She ap­peared to sug­gest that the Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP), whose par­ty’s sym­bol is most­ly black, was mis­lead­ing the elec­torate.

“If we al­low the men in black (PDP) to con­tin­ue to ped­dle lies, in­nu­en­does, and mis­in­for­ma­tion, we’re go­ing to lose out on a lot in To­ba­go. We have to make a con­scious de­ci­sion to ed­u­cate those around us,” Web­ster-Roy said. (CM)