Boldon first, now Jack hints at Lara

"When we say, ‘doh talk,’ ‘doh talk,’" he said. He added that party members were crying out for discipline and the party could not ask discipline of its members when there was no discipline at the top.

Warner was speaking at the UNC rally at Mid-Centre Mall on Sunday. He said the media liked "kuchoo" (bacchanal). Taking up Political Leader Winston Dookeran’s mantra about "new politics," Warner said, "New politics meant that one had to humble oneself, it meant carrying out the dictates of the people, it meant unity, it meant burying one’s ego and putting party before self." He noted, however, "The true followers of new politics knew when to talk and when to ‘shhh,’ when to advance and when to retreat, when to embrace change and when not to embrace change, when to run and when to stand."

Turning to his troubles with the FIFA Ethics Committee, Warner said when the committee talked about a conflict of interest, it was really a conflict of money — "my money." He said during the last two years he spent $18 million of his own money, paying $1.2 million each month in the salary bill for coaches. He said he was being attacked for his role in football because the UNC was becoming stronger. "They will attack Ato (Boldon) and they will attack me. But I have a question for them. How come the PNM is an African party and the two most successful Africans are in the UNC?" he asked.

"Suddenly they know Ato could run but he can’t hide. But I leaving (Brian) Lara for last. I have some shockers for them," he said, causing people in the crowd to speculate that Lara was joining the UNC.

On the controversy involving Maharaj’s re-entry into the party, Warner said Nelson Mandela forgave his white oppressors. "So what you asking me about Panday forgiving Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj for?" he asked rhetorically.

Basdeo Panday said he prayed for years to have the capacity to forgive Maharaj. "If there is any man in this audience who should want to buss Ramesh head, it should be me. After he did what he did (in 2000) every nerve in my body and soul hurt. And for years I dreamt of meeting him in a dark alley and strangling him when no one was looking," Panday said, causing laughter. He said however while he was carrying his "hate, anger, spite and malice," the PNM was taking the country down the precipice of despair. "The time had come to forgive, even if I couldn’t forget," he said.

Panday said when ANR Robinson kicked him and others out of the NAR government, Dookeran, Yetming, Bhoe Tewarie, Roy Augustus and others condoned this "massacre." And, he added, he didn’t hold it against them. "I have swallowed my pride and forgiven all and I could be in a position to issue this call for genuine unity. I cannot allow my personal feelings to supercede national unity," Panday said.

To those who accuse him of sleeping with the devil, he said he was now prepared to sleep with the devil’s father — "that is God." Panday said Dookeran was a well respected economist, Maharaj was a fearless, "some say ruthless" fighter, Warner was the best unifier in the country. These three and himself could "lick the hell out of them (the PNM). Call us the fearsome foursome, or the awesome foursome or the formidable four," he said to loud cheers.