AFC’s Dominic Gaskin breaks rank: calls on GECOM to make SoPs public

Executive Member of the Alliance for Change (AFC) Dominic Gaskin, who served as Business Minister in the coalition Government between 2015 and 2020 appears to have broken ranks with the coalition and is now publicly questioning the credibility of the results for Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) for the recently held General and Regional Elections.
Gaskin, who is also President David Granger’s son-in-law, on Friday took to social media, where he stated publicly that “given all that has taken place over the last twelve days, I am not sufficiently convinced that the results of the Region Four elections as declared by the GECOM (Guyana Elections Commission) RO (Returning Officer) last Thursday (March 5) accurately reflect the results recorded on the various Statements of Poll collected from the 879 Polling Stations.
In fact, he surmised: “I have a difficulty accepting that all the persons and organisations who have so far deemed the process to lack credibility have somehow gotten it wrong.”
According to Gaskin, “I have a difficulty understanding why GECOM, specifically the Region Four RO, would not be bending over backwards to convince the various observers that his tabulation process was sound and all his results credible.
The leading AFC Executive Member conceded “If our election results are as widely rejected as they appear likely to be, then there can be no winners. We all lose. This is not what I campaigned for.”
As such, Gaskin has since demanded that “GECOM needs to publish their SoPs for all to see. If not, it can never hold credible elections in Guyana again.
He noted, however, “unfortunately none of us can prevent GECOM from taking this process to its obvious conclusion, however, I believe the nation deserves to see all the numbers on which GECOM intends to base its final declaration.”
He concluded his public missive by saying: “It is a shame that good Guyanese are now turning on each other simply because a few rotten eggs are attempting to pull us apart. Time to tone down the hate, accept that we’re all in the same shit storm, and work our way out of it.”