Shaw
Garwin Davis, Assistant News Editor
JAMAICA LABOUR Party (JLP) spokesman on Finance, Audley Shaw, says while he has never been obsessed with the idea of succeeding Edward Seaga as party leader, he is no less ambitious than anybody else with leadership aspirations.
In an interview with The Sunday Gleaner on Thursday, Mr. Shaw, the Member of Parliament for North East Manchester, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament and a leading contender to take over the reins of the JLP after Edward Seaga, said the only thing that keeps him awake at nights is the "burning desire" to rid the country of what he called "the most corrupt Government ever".
"I have never been preoccupied with the positions I hold or aspire to hold in the JLP," he said. "I am, and have always seen myself as a party man an organisation man operating on the principle of collective leadership, in which the positions and opinions of the leader and colleagues are respected."
Asked to comment on whether Bruce Golding's declaration last week of wanting to lead the JLP some day had factored in his mind at all, Mr. Shaw said he was not overly concerned.
"I am not going to sit here and tell you that I am any less ambitious than anyone else," he said. "It is, however, not for me to put my personal ambitions above that of the delegates of the JLP."
