PRESIDENT Bharrat Jagdeo has said there is no truth in public speculation that he might ask Prime Minister Sam Hinds to demit office based on his alleged `ineffective' handling of the crisis-plagued electricity sector over which he has portfolio responsibility.

"Sometimes I understand the base but I don't understand the extrapolations and the projections," he said Thursday in response to a question at a news conference at the Office of the President on the merit of "talk in the wider public" that he might ask the Prime Minister to step down.

"No, that is absolutely untrue. No, I do not have any intention to ask the Prime Minister to demit office," Mr. Jagdeo said.

"...and as I said before, I think the Prime Minister is very hard working and he has to deal with a very contentious issue (electricity) and sometimes you can never please everyone.

"I know that (because) lots of things that I do people are not very happy with too," the President said.

He had, at a previous news conference, expressed concern that some persons in Government were not saying too much about the power supply situation.