Dayton Campbell Rejects Call to Resign from Electoral Commission

People’s National Party, PNP, general secretary, Dr. Dayton Campbell, is rejecting a call for him to resign as a commissioner of the Electoral Commission of Jamaica, ECJ.

Government Senator Abka Fitz-Henley made the call during his State of the Nation Debate presentation last Friday.

Fitz-Henley made the call after a voicenote, leaked last Thursday, of Dr. Campbell explaining to then PNP caretaker Lawrence Rowe that the Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Corporation, KSAMC, had distributed money strategically to PNP caretakers in anticipation of two by-elections.

That conversation between Rowe and Dr. Campbell is alleged to have happened on December 2 last year.

In that conversation, Rowe reportedly asked Dr. Campbell to explain why he only received $300,000 from the KSAMC, while other PNP political representatives received larger sums.

This is what Dr. Campbell said in response:

Fitz-Henley told parliament last Friday that Dr. Campbell’s response is evidence of the PNP secretariat endorsing criminality and organised crime.

Dr. Campbell hit back during his address at Damion Crawford’s PNP North West St. Catherine candidate presentation on Sunday.

Dr. Campbell styled Fitz-Henley as a “likkle youth”.

And the PNP general secretary is arguing he cannot be held accountable for misuse of funds by the KSAMC.

Dayton Campbell, PNP general secretary.