Shamfa: No room for complacency in PNM Tobago Council

PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil po­lit­i­cal leader Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis is warn­ing that there is “no room for com­pla­cen­cy” or per­son­al agen­das with­in the par­ty, as she seeks to strength­en the or­gan­i­sa­tion fol­low­ing the res­ig­na­tion of coun­cil chair­man Nicole Hen­ry-Wal­dron.

In a state­ment post­ed to so­cial me­dia, Cud­joe-Lewis said the PNM’s po­si­tion in Op­po­si­tion means mem­bers must be pre­pared for “hard work, sac­ri­fice, uni­ty and a shared sense of pur­pose.”

She said the cur­rent era of lead­er­ship de­mands pres­ence, com­mit­ment, ac­count­abil­i­ty and, above all, a gen­uine will­ing­ness to serve.

“There is no room for com­pla­cen­cy, per­son­al agen­das or the pur­suit of ti­tles with­out the will­ing­ness to ful­fil the re­spon­si­bil­i­ties that come with them,” Cud­joe-Lewis said.

Her com­ments came one day af­ter Hen­ry-Wal­dron re­signed as chair­man and re­nounced her mem­ber­ship of the PNM, five months af­ter be­ing elect­ed to the post.

Cud­joe-Lewis said she re­spect­ed the de­ci­sion of those who have cho­sen to step away and thanked them for their con­tri­bu­tions. How­ev­er, she said the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to thou­sands of PNM mem­bers and sup­port­ers re­mains un­changed.

She said her com­mit­ment as po­lit­i­cal leader re­mains firm, with the fo­cus on re­build­ing trust among To­bag­o­ni­ans, strength­en­ing the or­gan­i­sa­tion and pre­sent­ing a cred­i­ble al­ter­na­tive to the elec­torate.

“The work con­tin­ues, the mis­sion re­mains the same,” Cud­joe-Lewis said, adding that the PNM “will al­ways be big­ger than any one of us.”