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Dear Editor,
The recount is on, and the results emanating therefrom tell the telltale story of a bunch of individuals who were on a lowdown, dirty and barefaced rigging programme, all geared towards the ultimate objective of staying in power.
I am talking about the incumbent PNC-led Coalition, whose agent deliberately departed from the use of the official Statements of Poll of the March Election and substituted his own fraudulent figures on a spreadsheet.
That manoeuvre gave a handsome victory to the Coalition. Now that that brazen attempt at rigging failed miserably, a total recount was ordered. We are into the second week of recounting and the results show a marked difference in the spreadsheet results given by Clairmont Mingo and the official SOP of that very same election. The discrepancies show a deliberate attempt to rig the elections in favour of the incumbent APNU/AFC, while diminishing those of the actual winner, The PPP/C.
Now the revelations of the recount are not countenanced by the Coalition, seeing they are soon to be toppled from the lofty position of being winners to one of lowly losers; fortunes are drastically changing. In this regard, they have suddenly changed the narrative.
In fact it is a two-pronged attack on the ongoing recount. The first of these is to slow down the process, bringing it into a laborious and time-consuming exercise. The second strategy is one of discrediting the entire electoral process, rendering it a discredited and flawed process.
So the nitpicking is in earnest, with objections made at every turn. Be it a tick here or the crossing of a T there, the holdups are endless. The situation has become so ludicrous that one particular objection went right to the heart of classifying the President himself as a person who has migrated, and as such was ineligible to vote. The foolishness couldn’t get any worse, but this is the situation after an election in a place called Guyana.
As it stands, Guyana is one grand circus, with the APNU party making a fool of itself. Should we subject ourselves to this idiocy while an entire country languishes? The answer is no, but we must persevere to the very end, to the place where a credible result is arrived at and the legitimate president sworn in. This is our aim, this is our goal.
Respectfully,
Neil Adams