PM: FijiFirst Will Win
“When he resigned from SODELPA he said that he would not form another party, but later on he registered his new party.
Tuesday 29 March 2022 | 10:46
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama. (Left) The People’s Alliance Party leader Sitiveni Rabuka Photo: Leon Lord
The FijiFirst Government will win the 2022 General Election.
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama did not mince his words on Sunday when he made the declaration and called out People’s Alliance Party leader Sitiveni Rabuka.
Speaking on the Fijian Broadcasting Corporation Radio Fiji One Nai Lalakai programme, Mr Bainimarama said: “FijiFirst won in the 2014 and 2018 elections, and we will win again in 2022.
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“Many will question why I said this, but the reason is that my Government has done a lot of developments since 2006.
“Through my leadership we have done a lot of developments around Fiji and we continue to prove our critics wrong.”
He said he was not surprised that Mr Rabuka criticised and badmouthed Government while on a recent visit to Labasa.
“This is nothing new to me and I’m not shocked to hear what he has been saying. There was no transparency during his time in government and that speaks volume of himself. He loves changing his words,” he said.
“He can say something today and tomorrow he will say something else and that is what he is good at. He was talking about reducing civil servants’ salaries and the next day he changed his words again. He keeps changing his words because of politics.
“When he resigned from SODELPA he said that he would not form another party, but later on he registered his new party.
“He told the world that he was leaving politics for good, but he did not. These are some of the things which we can see in him that are inconsistent.”
Mr Bainimarama said while Mr Rabuka was Prime Minister he claimed that 70 per cent of top civil servants were from Vanua Levu.
He said this showed that Mr Rabuka still wanted to segregate Fijians based on their provinces.
“He did it in the RFMF and he did it in Government when he was in power, but many Fijians turned their backs on him.
“He claimed that my Government is only run by two people. This is a big lie. How can two people run an entire Government?”
Mr Bainimarama reassured all Fijians that Government would not turn their backs on developments aimed at bettering their livelihoods.
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