Former Prime Minister Perry Christie said he offered to help then-Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis write his concession speech hours before the polls closed on Election Day.
Christie made the revelation after Philip Brave Davis, who served as deputy prime minister during Christie’s second administration, received his instruments of appointment as prime minister on Saturday.
“About two o’clock in the afternoon on Election Day, I went looking for the prime minister, Hubert Minnis,” he told reporters.
“I went and I found him at his polling station with his supporters and I said, ‘I’ve come to tell you, you have lost the general election.’ That was around two o’clock.
“I said, ‘Brave Davis will be the next prime minister and I’ve come, my friend, to say to you if you would wish for me to help you with your concession speech, I am prepared to do that.’
“He looked shocked. Then he said, ‘I’m going to beat Brave Davis.’ That’s when I realized that we were on two different planes.”
On August 19, Minnis, who became prime minister in a landslide victory in May 2017, called an early election, which took place last Thursday.
The election was held eight months before it was constitutionally due.
Minnis told reporters earlier this year that the Free National Movement (FNM) would win all 39 seats in the House of Assembly.
Instead, the FNM was only able to hold onto seven of the 35 seats won in 2017.
In a statement on Thursday, Minnis indicated that he plans to stay on as leader of the FNM and serve as leader of the opposition.
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