Workers’ Party of Guinea (PTG) leader Botche Kande pledged this Monday to end the “revenge” in Guinea-Bissau and unite all Guineans to work for development.
“PTG is not interested in dividing the Guinean families, we want to end the problems and be one. There is no reason for wars, there is no reason for dividing this people, because we politicians, if we divide this people, we are sinning before God,” the Minister of Agriculture also said.
Botche Cande spoke to reporters after a rally in Bairro da Ajuda in Bissau, where he returned to thank them for their support and explain that he would not return to the Guinean capital until after the June 4 elections.
The leader of the PTG said that the party would, firstly, “really fight revenge” and secondly, unite the Guineans, because “without unity, friendship and brotherhood” the country will never move forward.
When asked by reporters about the broom in his hand, Botche Kande explained that the broom means “all evil, lack of unity, brotherhood, murder, violence and revenge.”
“This broom that God gave me is to cleanse all societies, cleanse the hearts of all Guineans so that we can be one, so that there is development. Then all together, with the president and all political parties, we will manage to develop Guinea. There must be health, education and unity,” he explained to reporters.
Regarding whether he is ready to work with all political parties, Botche Kande said that “they are all Guineans” and “brothers in regards to possible coalitions, to which the PTG leader sent a reply after the elections.
The PTG was created in December 2021 while Botche Kande was still serving as Minister of the Interior.
Botche Kande has been known as the lion of the east in Guinean politics for more than 20 years, but in the current legislative campaign, supporters refer to him as the national lion.
“The national lion has arrived in Bissau, where are the wild goats?” Botche Kande addressed his supporters at the beginning of the rally in Bissau.
When asked by journalists about who the wild goats are, the candidate said that it is politicians who ask the people to vote and then deceive them, unlike, as he explained, the national lion, who makes this possible.
Two coalitions and 20 political parties launched on May 13 the election campaign for the seventh June 4 legislative elections in Guinea-Bissau after the Guinean Parliament was dissolved on May 18, 2022.
The election campaign in Guinea-Bissau will last until June 2.