FNM MPs ask GG to remove Minnis

Wed, Dec 7th 2016, 11:47 AM

Seven FNM MPs have written to Governor General Dame Marguerite Pindling expressing a vote of no confidence in Leader of the Official Opposition Dr. Hubert Minnis and asking that he be removed and replaced by Long Island MP Loretta Butler-Turner.

Speaker of the House of Assembly Dr. Kendal Major advised the House today he has received a letter from the MPs on the matter.

The MPs who wrote the GG are Central Grand Bahama MP Neko Grant; South and Central Abaco MP Edison Key; Butler-Turner; Montagu MP Richard Lightbourn; St. Anne's MP Hubert Chipman; Fort Charlotte MP Dr. Andre Rollins and North Eleuthera MP Theo Neilly.

Dame Marguerite has not yet acted on their letter.

Earlier this year, six of the MPs threatened to write the governor general, but this was prevented when the FNM agreed to a convention. Minnis held on to the party leadership.

Butler-Turner dropped out of the leadership race hours before voting started, saying the process was corrupted.

On Saturday, Key advised The Nassau Guardian that he too had lost confidence in Minnis.

Minnis will still be leader of the Free National Movement.

In the House of Assembly this morning, he said that despite the fact that democracy has prevailed, some people within his party continue to refuse to accept that. He was referring to his re-election (unopposed) as leader of the FNM at the party's July convention.

"I am hearing this for the first time," Minnis told the House.

"It saddens me that individuals are prepared because they did not get their way in a democratic process, they are determined to subvert democracy and still get their way. Mr. Speaker. The Free National Movement will issue a formal statement in the most appropriate time."

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