PEOPLE'S NATIONAL Party (PNP) treasurer and Team PNP supporter Roger Clarke has signalled that Portia Simpson Miller may get rid of some of her detractors if she is re-elected as party president on Saturday.

Speaking at a massive Team PNP delegates rally at the National Indoor Sports Centre on Sunday, Clarke said Simpson Miller was perhaps too willing to embrace some factions in the PNP.

Weakness

"Some people take kindness for weakness. Our party leader has been too kind to some. Sorry fi mawga dawg, mawga dawg turn round bite yuh," Clarke bellowed.

He told the large crowd that Simpson Miller was sabotaged by factions in the party.

"I was in Cabinet with her. I saw that passive resistance from them. Everything that she wanted to do, there was a bug there to stop her from what she wanted to do," Clarke said.

He cited the example of a $750 million national clean-up programme announced by Simpson Miller when she was prime minister.

"Throughout the period, not one thing happened until the Labour Party came to office. Sabotage! Sabotage! Sabotage. They never wanted her to succeed," Clarke said.

Leadership challenge

Simpson Miller is being challenged for the leadership of the PNP by Dr Peter Phillips.

Simpson Miller defeated Phillips by 247 delegate votes in 2006 and succeeded P.J. Patterson as PNP president and prime minister. After 18 months in the job, she led the PNP to its first general election defeat since 1980. The PNP won 28 seats to the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) 32 in the 60-seat Parliament.

Arise and Renew, Phillips' campaign, has listed the defeat and what it called Simpson Miller's failure to unite the party among the reasons for the challenge.