DR Omar Davies, the incumbent People’s National Party (PNP) candidate for the tough South St Andrew constituency, has been operating without the services of his campaign manager, Keith Senior, since June.

When contacted yesterday, Senior admitted that he parted company with the PNP candidate from as far back as early June, but refused to say why.

“It is best you ask the member of parliament about that,” he told the Observer.

In what appears to be an acrimonious parting of ways, Senior said that he had no intention of campaigning for any other candidate in the upcoming general elections.

“I am laying low for the time being,” he said.

According to the former campaign manager, he made the decision to leave the Davies campaign team at the beginning of June, before the announcement of the August 27 general election date and he was not fired from the post.

“I left voluntarily and it was immediate,” said Senior.

Efforts yesterday to contact Dr Davies or his constituency office for a comment were unsuccessful.

Davies’s campaign appears to have been running on automatic pilot since then as yesterday Senior said he was uncertain if anyone, to date, had taken up the vacant position.

The PNP has held the seat of the violence-prone constituency, which includes the inner-city communities of Arnett Gardens and Rema, for more than 30 years.