People’s National Party (PNP) General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell on Sunday issued a stout defence of Mark Golding, declaring that he will be the next prime minister of Jamaica despite the flak he is receiving over his dual citizenship.

Addressing the PNP’s Portmore Pines Division conference and workers’ rally at Cedar Grove Academy, Campbell told Comrades not to be distracted by the uproar being made by the Government about dual citizenship as it is a tactic to distract people from the real issues impacting them.

“We nuh care if Mark father is British, Mark Golding is a born Jamaican and when you call the [general] election, we are going to vote him in as the next prime minister of this country,” Campbell declared.

The nation learnt last month that Golding, the PNP president and Opposition leader, has Jamaican and British citizenships, and since then he has been facing harsh criticism from the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), with Prime Minister Andrew Holness declaring that even if he were to renounce his British citizenship now, the situation would be incurable.

Campbell, who is also vying for the Westmoreland Eastern constituency, now represented by JLP’s Daniel Lawrence, argued that because of a recent poll showing the PNP ahead by eight points, “them get nervous and start gwaan wid all sorta antics”.
According to Campbell, the JLP has employed a strategy to have a different member of parliament come out to comment on Golding’s dual citizenship every other day.