CCJ, please declare our President by 233,336 votes

Dear Editor,
Guyanese our General and Regional Elections lived up to its expectations as one of the most significant since Guyanese independence in 1966 because of one of the largest new discoveries of oil in the world off the coast of our country. According to ExxonMobil, Guyana could be producing 750,000 barrels of oil per day within five years, and the expected revenue from this oil would dwarf Guyana’s previous US$3 billion GDP and transform its development possibilities. This is what David Granger and the PNCR cabals are all after: 750,000 barrels of oil per day. Today the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) will be making another significant ruling in history for Guyana’s democracy and electoral process, “the will of the Guyanese people “is challenged by the APNU/AFC greed to remain in power. However, the (CCJ) decision today promises gratification to every Guyanese in some shape or form. The Caricom 47th Anniversary could not have arrived at a better time. Guyanese must recognise the efforts of Caricom in seeking to ensure that “the will of the people” is respected and upheld. GECOM’s support in providing a team to scrutinise the National Recount especially given the circumstances of our world at this time makes us even more indebted to the Community.
We also hail the forthright expressions of the Community’s leaders who undoubtedly are concerned about the well-being of the people of our dear land. I, like thousands of Guyanese, are most appreciative of the efforts of Caricom at this crucial time in Guyana’s history. Caricom has been playing an integral role in Guyana’s prolonged electoral process. In fact, Caricom former Chair, Prime Minister Mia Mottley had led a high-level delegation of four other Caricom Heads of State back in March to discuss the impasse, during which Caretaker President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo had agreed to a National Recount under the auspices of the then Caricom Chair, who had facilitated a special team of observers to monitor the exercise. But this activity never got underway after an APNU/AFC supporter, Ulita Moore, challenged the recount in the court, forcing the team to depart. It was crystal clear to all that there were forces in the APNU/AFC, PNCR and GECOM that did not want to see the votes recounted for whatever reason. Subsequently, Caricom agreed to field another team upon the invitation of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to scrutinise the National Recount which ran from May 6 to June 8, 2020.
Caricom observers in their report to GECOM on June 15, said: “nothing we witnessed, warrants a challenge to the inescapable conclusion that the recount results are acceptable and should constitute the basis of the declaration of results of the March 2, 2020 elections.” There are calls from Caricom and the international community for the results from the National Recount, which was certified by the Caricom team, to form the basis for the declaration of the election results. David Granger’s A Partnership For National Unity (APNU) and Alliance For Change (AFC), often referred to as APNU/AFC has a motto, which is, incidentally, “honesty, decency and integrity.” How can David Granger and his PNCR cabals allow and direct Keith Lowenfield to go against the directions of GECOM Chair, Retired Justice Claudette Singh, to use the recount figures and instead, submit his final elections report in which he invalidated over 115,000 votes? That is the question posed by every sound-minded person.
Despite David Granger previously deeming Caricom as the most “legitimate interlocutor” in Guyana’s electoral process, the APNU/AFC issued a statement, which was subsequently withdrawn, saying that APNU/AFC believed that Prime Minister Mottley’s statement was both ill-informed and ill-advised. They viewed the Hon Prime Minister’s statement as not only untimely but, in fact, as interference in a matter on which the Constitution of Guyana is clear. In response, however, PM Mottley posited that the Community should never avoid upholding its shared principles. “The truth hurts. But what we must never do in Caricom is avoid the truth and avoid our principles.”
Can we please declare our President by the “popular votes” 233,336 which are indeed the most “valid votes” cast for the PPP/C?
GECOM initiatives to assist in the preservation of democracy in Guyana within the term of the Caricom Charter of Civil Society will be long remembered, despite unwarranted, vulgar and opportunistic criticisms from jaundiced elements in the PNCR who ought to know better.
The CCJ is Guyana’s greatest champion for law and order and of our parliamentary democracy to proclaim the Court of Appeal is the only final jurisdiction to hear an electoral issue, then add a word to the Constitution must be the definition of judicial coup d’etat.

Sincerely,
David Adams