Pollard: “My Candidacy is Not for Sale”

While he has been endorsed as a councilor candidate, Allan Pollard, who is actually the deputy mayor, had applied to the P.U.P. to run against Mayor Bernard Wagner. But the party decided to endorse Wagner, thereby nullifying all the applications that were submitted to run against Wagner. Pollard had said publicly that the party would have to explain why it accepted applications when it turned around and endorsed Wagner. So when he didn’t have much to say thereafter, murmurs began to spread that he may have been appeased by the party in order to let it go. When we asked him for a response during the convention on Sunday, he vehemently denied the allegation.

Allan Pollard

Allan Pollard, City Council Candidate, P.U.P

“Not so. If anybody knows me, I’m in this thing for the long haul. I would never put in my application if I wasn’t serious, right. My candidacy is not for sale, never been, and not now. So there’s nothing possible that anyone could offer me to segue or to defer (me) from my dreams. That doesn’t work like that, but I am part of a political party and this is the reality that comes with it, right, so for me I just have to look forward and push forward. Trust mi wen I tell yoh: all the noise yoh hear eena the market, nothing like that goh soh and wi still eena the same position, still di work, still di grind hard fi the people but fi me at the end ah the day, da bout service, soh none ah that nuh matta, yoh nuh.”