APNU/AFC cabal selfishly holding on to power – Mark Phillips

…only diehards hold that APNU/AFC won – scrutineer

People’s Progressive Party/C (PPP/C) Executive Mustapha Zulfikar was integrally involved in the election process as his party’s Chief Election Scrutineer. According to him, only A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) die-hard supporters would believe that the coalition won the elections in spite of the mountain of evidence that says otherwise.

Mustapha made these comments while appearing on the show “Government in transition” on Monday, where he pointed to the certified National Recount which showed the PPP/C won the March 2 polls by 15,416 votes.
He noted that APNU/AFC has gone to great lengths in their desperation to claim victory, despite a number of countries, the Organisation of American States (OAS), the Caribbean Community (Caricom) and others saying otherwise. Even the efforts of Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield to invalidate votes and give APNU/AFC a victory have failed.
“Lowenfield nullified votes to show a victory for them, then he brought back (Region Four Returning Officer Clairmont) Mingo’s jumbie figures. You can see the narrative changing all the time to suit themselves.”
“But the reality is APNU/AFC is in a corner, they are the only people saying they won the elections. The entire world, the United Nations, Caricom, Commonwealth, the OAS, the entire world, are saying the PPP/C won the elections,” Mustapha said.
According to Mustapha, APNU/AFC has been consistent at being inconsistent. He noted that the coalition has consistently changed their narrative to appeal to their base, who have braved COVID-19 to come out in scattered protests urging the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to use fraudulent results to swear in Granger.

“After the elections, we heard Granger say that he won the elections when everyone knew the PPP/C won. We had the recount and he said the Caricom report would be the deciding factor. After Caricom brought out its report, he changed tune again. Then they said they want to nullify the elections,” Mustapha observed.
PPP/C Prime Ministerial Candidate, Brigadier General (retired) Mark Phillips, who appeared on the show alongside Mustapha, also expressed similar views. He said that the only reason APNU/AFC continues to hold on to power despite being voted out, is because of selfishness.
“APNU/AFC have lost the elections. They know that. The whole issue of the changing narratives is in keeping with whatever strategy they conceive in their minds, that they can implement to remain in office at all costs.”
“But they are selfish. The situation in Guyana is deteriorating every single day that this cabal decides that they want to hold on to power. They’re not doing anything for the Guyanese people. The Guyanese people have already voted them out of office. They need to respect the will of the Guyanese people.”
The national report had shown that the PPP/C won the elections with 233,336 votes while the APNU/AFC coalition garnered 217,920. GECOM Chair, Retired Justice Singh had written to Lowenfield and instructed him to prepare a final report based on the recount.

Instead, Lowenfield had submitted a report invalidating over 115,000 voters based on unsubstantiated allegations of dead and migrant voters, made by the APNU/AFC. Lowenfield’s actions caused an immediate uproar and the varying sides found themselves in the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) for the Irfaan Ali et al v Eslyn David et al case.
Among other decisions, the CCJ ruled last week that Lowenfield’s report, which arbitrarily disenfranchised voters, was invalid and that the concerns raised by the APNU/AFC coalition must be addressed in an elections petition.
The GECOM Chair wrote Lowenfield again, instructing him to submit his report so that the President could be declared. In his fraudulent report he submitted on Saturday, Lowenfield included the fraudulent declarations of embattled Returning Officer for Region Four Clairmont Mingo, which inaccurately shows that the PPP/C gained 80,920 votes while the APNU/AFC received 116,941 votes in Region Four.
The inaccuracy of those numbers was widely proven during the recount exercise, as it was unearthed that Mingo heavily inflated the votes in favour of the APNU/AFC to give them a false victory. Lowenfield has since been given a final chance to submit results today.