No interest in politics – Tegat Davis
WESTERN BUREAU – Popular footballer Paul “Tegat” Davis, who was said to be on the People’s National Party’s prospective list of candidates for the upcoming local government elections, says he has no intention of entering representational politics.
“I see it as a joke, I know nothing about politics. I am not interested. I have been telling them and they still keep on calling and I want to make it clear, I am not interested,” he said yesterday.
At the same time he has hit out against those who, he feels, are trying to capitalise on his popularity.
“This is one of the things that is mashing up de country. They are looking for people who are popular but know nothing about politics. I am very upset, all my life I’ve been in football and nobody has seen it fit to help me and now all of a sudden they want to involve me in politics, all because of my popularity. I am not educated about politics,” Davis argued.
It was being heavily bandied about on the streets of Montego Bay that Davis was among those being courted to represent the PNP in the Farm Heights Division. He would go up against the incumbent, the Jamaica Labour Party’s Heroy Clarke.
But Davis, a former Caribbean footballer of the year and a former national representative, said he intends to remain in sport. He is the current coach of Invaders Football Club in Trelawny, the recent winners of the Fred Smith Western Confed mid-season final.
“I don’t want to be caught up in politics,” Davis said.
Davis told the Observer that while he has not had talks with anyone from the PNP’s hierarchy, several grassroots supporters had broached the issue with him.
Fifteen of 17 PNP councilor candidates were presented to the public at the Chatwick Gardens Conference Centre in Montego Bay Saturday, fuelling speculation about who would be contesting the two divisions where candidates were not named – Farm Heights and Spring Gardens.
Since then, the sporting fraternity in Montego Bay has been abuzz with the news that Davis could be the one to fill the vacant seat in Farm Heights.