“Coalition hurting its supporters by spreading false narrative they won the elections” – Ali

The leadership of the A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) must cease creating a “false narrative and spreading propaganda” and be honest with its supporters by letting them know the coalition lost the March 2 polls.

This is according to People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Presidential Candidate, Dr Irfaan Ali, who, in a direct appeal to the leadership of the APNU/AFC on Thursday evening, urged the coalition to “come clean” regarding the true results of the elections.

Ali, via a Facebook video, said that this false narrative, being pushed by coalition

leaders, was not doing any good for its support base or for the country as a whole.
“You cannot continue to push propaganda and create a false narrative among your support base. It is not right. It does not help them,” Ali told the APNU/AFC.
Ali reminded that all of the international and local observers, in their initial assessments, had labelled the District Four tabulations by Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo as fraudulent.
He added that the ongoing national recount at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC) would confirm that it was the PPP that won the polls, adding that the Statements of Recount (SoRs) were matching the Statements of Poll (SoPs) which his party had uploaded.
“The APNU/AFC cannot be doing this to their supporters; they cannot be continuously misleading their supporters,” Ali pleaded.
He also used the opportunity to assure coalition supporters that in a PPP Government, they would have an equal stake in the development of the country.
“I want to assure every single APNU/AFC supporter that the PPP and the next government would manage in a way that would include them. Everyone will see their aspirations realised,” the Presidential Candidate promised.
He said that the APNU/AFC should accept that it has been defeated and use the time out of office to reflect on how the coalition could be better.
Ali said that by now political parties should have been working with a legitimate government to ensure development is fast-tracked, but, unfortunately, the country is being caught up in a political conundrum.
The APNU/AFC went into attack mode against Caribbean statesman Bruce Golding over his damning assessment of the controversial Region Four declarations which saw Mingo inflating votes heavily in favour of the incumbent coalition.
Golding, a former Prime Minister of Jamaica, had led the Organisation of American States’ Electoral Observation Mission (OAS EOM) to monitor Guyana’s March 2 General and Regional Elections.
On Wednesday, the EOM Head presented his preliminary report to the Permanent Council of the OAS during which he said: “I have never seen a more transparent effort to alter the results of an election.”
The APNU/AFC coalition was now in a desperate attempt to discredit the findings of the OAS Electoral Observer Mission.