Rabuka has proved he is still the man history will always remember him to be - PM

Prime Minister, Voreqe Bainimarama says Opposition Leader, Sitiveni Rabuka has proved he is still the man history will always remember him to be which is a selfish, short-sighted and hateful ethnic supremacist.

Bainimarama highlighted this while giving his right of reply to the President’s opening address in Parliament.

The Prime Minister says listening to the tirade from Rabuka during his response, he was not angry but was relieved.

SODELPA’s Ro Filipe Tuisawau then raised a point of order saying that the words hateful and selfish should not be used in parliament, to which the Speaker then ruled that the Prime Minister is on his right of reply and should not be disturbed.

Bainimarama also questioned the Opposition what part about the President’s opening address struck such a nerve with the Opposition.

He says what upset them the most is the prominence of what his government has achieved and they cannot stand to watch the Fijian people embrace the new era, true democracy and common identity, and throw away SODELPA and the SDL government's shameful legacy.

Bainimarama says Rabuka is leading the members of opposition down a blind alley and they do not know what the snake has in store for them. 

He has also condemned the opposition’s call for his resignation. 

The Prime Minister has called on the opposition to not drag us back into the ugliness of the past.

Bainimarama also urged SODELPA to be more than a one-issue party and end the tired fiction that the iTaukei are somehow a marginalised people and that by treating the people equally they are somehow leaving others behind.