Following the withdrawal of Shiela Holder as the party’s Prime Ministerial candidate for health reasons last week, the AFC recently announced Rapheal Trotman as a replacement.
Trotman along with executive member Cathy Hughes had been nominated to replace Holder prompting the `party’s National Executive Committee to meet. Hughes subsequently withdrew at Saturday’s meeting and threw her support behind a Ramjattan/Trotman ticket, the party said.
“I was really very happy and proud to be nominated and to be considered. During the course of our deliberations and through the process we went through this morning I did decide to withdraw my nomination and I decided that my contributions would be best served putting them behind the very capable Khemraj and Raphael who I’ve worked very closely with over the last six to seven years,” Hughes told reporters following the meeting.
Trotman had previously indicated that he was not in a position to be the PM candidate because of health reasons. However, On Saturday he indicated that those issues have since been resolved.
“Last October I was in a place where I had some medical concerns of my own; I have since had doctors here and abroad examine me and again, perhaps miraculously, I have been given a good and clean bill of health,” the AFC Leader stated
Meanwhile, a statement from the party said there was unanimous support from the executive members for Trotman as PM candidate.
Shiela Holder, 65, announced her withdrawal on September 9 stating that it was medical reasons and that she would require “urgent medical treatment” overseas for the next few months.
She had been hospitalised locally in recent months. She is currently in the US where she sought advanced care and treatment with the expectation of making a full recovery.
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