Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Fox Hill MP Fred Mitchell charged yesterday that Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham should "butt out of PLP business" and stop making the general election "a contest about personalities when this election is about crime and unemployment".
Mitchell released a statement responding to comments Ingraham made minutes after he nominated in North Abaco on Tuesday.
The prime minister said PLPs have been downplaying their leader, Perry Christie, during their campaign and are instead pushing the party because "they don't want him".
"You can see that in the posters that they put up that they are seeking to push the PLP and seeking to hide Christie as much as they can, but we are not going to let Christie hide, we're going to put him up there," Ingraham said.
"And he makes all sorts of bogus statements that I'm going to lose my seat, what a joke."
Mitchell said the "insults" by the prime minister about Christie are evidence he is unfit to govern.
"Mr. Ingraham's comments at [the] nomination proceedings about the PLP and Mr. Christie are stupid," the statement read.
"They are false. He keeps trying to make this a contest about personalities when this election is about crime and unemployment and the failures of the Ingraham-led administration. I would invite him to cease and desist. Further, I invite him to mind his own business."
Mitchell also said the PLP elected Christie "fair and square" as its leader in open and democratic elections.
"This is something Mr. Ingraham now fails to do with regard to the choice of a deputy leader," he said.
"Mr. Ingraham is a one man band."
In response as to whether the FNM would elect a new deputy leader before the May 7 general election, Ingraham has repeatedly said he can stand on his own.
"I have an election to win," Ingraham told reporters recently. "The party has a leader."

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