Dean Samuels, the U.D.P. Nomination Day No-Show

Dean Samuels, the United Democratic Party’s Nomination Day no-show, has finally broken his silence. In a Facebook video, Samuels explained why he backed out at the last minute. His reasons ranged from medical emergency and financial constraints to a fear of being blown out. Here’s a bit of what he had to say.

 

Dean Samuels, U.D.P Member

“I want to publicly apologize to my party, every member of the United Democratic Pary and its supporters. I want to public apologize to Honorable Shyne Barrow my party leader, to Ms. Tracy Panton and other U.D.P members who supports her. I want to publicly apologize to the people of the Pickstock division, those of you who I took away the chance from giving you your opportunity to protest your vote against the wrongs that this government is doing. You of all people, I took that away from you guys and for me that basically is one of the worst feeling I have, is that. Politics is about finances and the truth of the matter is, everybody understands that the person I was going up against is one of the most powerful, financially viable people in government. It was understood by my party that you know what happened, moving forward the finance will be put in the hand of those seats we have more chances of winning, which I agree. We have no problem with that. It is disheartening but there is no problem with that. The reality is, if I can’t represent people the way I want represent people, or put forward a proper bid then I just the set myself up for one of the worst lose ever in history.”