AFC hit with another resignation: Dillon Mohamed walks citing party’s anti-coalition shift and discrimination
Former President of Youth For Change (YFC), the youth arm of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Dillon Mohamed has resigned from the party along with his roles as PR Director of YFC and Executive of the East Bank Regional Management Committee.
His resignation follows that of Onix Duncan, highlighting growing unrest within the AFC over its leadership and political direction.
In a detailed resignation letter dated June 29, 2025, Mohamed expressed deep disappointment with the party’s current trajectory, particularly its shift away from coalition politics and its handling of internal divisions.
Mohamed lamented missed opportunities, beginning from the party’s 2012 failure to secure the Speaker of the House position—a moment he described as a “golden opportunity” to politically secure youth support.
Mohamed also recalled the 2016 disillusionment among youth activists when some government ministers allegedly turned their backs on young party supporters, leading many to drift toward the opposition, albeit to a party he described as serving “private interests.”
Identifying as Guyana’s first openly LGBTQ youth politician, Mohamed shared how, despite initial homophobic backlash within YFC, he helped foster greater tolerance and acceptance.
Yet, he criticised the ongoing intolerance and discriminatory language in party forums, which he said the leadership had failed to adequately address.
The most significant cause of Mohamed’s resignation was the party’s anti-coalition stance, which, he says, betrays the will of the membership, who had overwhelmingly supported maintaining alliances to remove the current government.
He described recent internal decisions as resembling a “creeping anti-coalition dictatorship,” which he said was damaging party unity and its appeal to young people.
“I want it to be absolutely clear that I will never be joining the current party in government for as long as it remains a ruthlessly capitalist party,” Mohamed affirmed, identifying himself as a social democrat and democratic socialist.
However, he left the door open for a possible return should the AFC realign itself with the interests of the Guyanese people.
