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FORMER UNC chairman Jack Warner said he will reveal the reasons why he is returning to active politics, when he joins his former political colleagues Kamla Persad-Bissessar and Gary Griffith on stage at a UNC/ National Transformation Alliance (NTA) political meeting at the Centre of Excellence on Monday.
In a telephone interview with Newsday on Saturday, Warner confirmed his participation in that meeting.
"On Monday, I intend to talk and tell the country why I have to come back into politics."
Warner,a former FIFA vice president and cabinet minister in the UNC-led People's Partnership coalition, felt it premature to disclose these reasons ahead of Monday's meeting.
He expected many people had questions about his return, given his ongoing legal challenges and political fall out with Persad-Bissessar when he left the UNC in April 2013 to form his own party, the Independent Liberal Party.
Warner said, "In spite of all of that, I am coming forward."
At a PNM meeting in Chaguanas, party chairman Stuart Young reminded the population that Warner is still facing extradition to the United States for corruption charges relating to when he was FIFA vice president, Young declared, "I'm offering Jack Warner a first-class ticket to Miami waiting for him, if he wants to go."
On November 17, 2022, the Privy Council paved the way for the continuation of the proceedings to extradite Warner to the US to face the charges.
The London court held that the US’s request for Warner’s extradition was not unfair.
The proceedings in the local court were stalled when Warner, the former FIFA jefe, challenged the process by which the extradition proceedings against him were carried out and sought to quash the authority to proceed (ATP) signed by the Attorney General in September 2015. This was after the US asked for him to be extradited to face 29 charges of fraud, corruption and money laundering. The request was made on July 24, 2015.
After the 2015 general election, the then attorney general, Faris Al-Rawi, offered to allow Warner to make representations, but only on the condition the deadline for receipt of the ATP would be extended with his consent.
Warner refused to agree to the condition. His attorneys argued he was not given sufficient time to make representations, nor was he given disclosures of any evidence the US intended to use to secure his extradition.
The ATP gave the magistrate the green light to begin committal proceedings.
Warner is represented by Fyard Hosein, SC, Sasha Bridgemohansingh, Anil Maraj and Aadam Hosein. Appearing for ASP Alleyne, who is acting on the request of the US, are James Lewis, KC, Douglas Mendes, SC, Pamela Elder, SC, Ravi Rajcoomar, SC, Netram Kowlessar and Ryan Rajcoomar.
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