Dishonesty, indecency of David Granger, APNU/AFC have no bounds

Dear Editor,
David Granger and his APNU/AFC sycophants wear indecency and dishonesty as a badge of honour. But many persons still had hopes that David Granger would at least have a limit to his indecency and dishonesty. The truth really hurts because, for those who gave him the benefit of the doubt, Granger has proven beyond any doubt that his indecency and dishonesty have no bounds. On almost a daily basis, Granger and the APNU/AFC’s dishonesty and indecency are being exposed.
On July 21st, Karen Cummings, Guyana’s squatter Minister of Foreign Affairs, was sent by Granger to represent him and APNU/AFC at a special meeting called by the OAS to discuss the electoral rigging that the OAS observers reported. Every member country of the OAS denounced the ongoing attempts to thief the elections in Guyana. Every country insisted Granger and APNU/AFC must immediately desist from using the judiciary as part of its theft of the elections.
Cummings promised the OAS that Granger would accept the declaration GECOM makes, whenever GECOM does make the declaration. She told the OAS that Granger asked her to let them know he would accept GECOM’s declaration. Granger had, on multiple occasions, himself promised to accept GECOM’s declaration. Both the CCJ and the CJ of Guyana have indicated that GECOM is bound to use the Recount results as the basis for its declaration.
But, egregiously, Granger and APNU/AFC immediately exposed further their dishonesty and indecency. They added further proof they are holding Guyana hostage, as the OAS members themselves have concluded. On the same day, Cummings and the squatter Attorney General Basil Williams were begging the OAS to be patient, that Granger is only waiting for GECOM to declare the results, which he would accept, APNU/AFC frivolously and vexingly appealed the Chief Justice’s rulings which were made on July 20. This now prevents GECOM from making the declaration which Granger supposedly is waiting on.
This action further proves the OAS was not overstating the case against Granger and APNU/AFC when it concluded they were using the judiciary as a pawn in their delaying and thieving tactics. The Guyana Appeal Court is now scheduled to have a hearing on Saturday, July 25. By the time the COA makes its ruling, it will be almost five months since the elections were held.
Even more egregiously, just one day after Cummings and Williams appeared in front of the OAS and promised that Granger and APNU/AFC would accept GECOM”s declaration, insisting they have never and will never interfere with GECOM’s independence, APNU/AFC issued a statement that they will not accept GECOM’s declaration if it used the Recount results. They claimed that only one of Lowenfield’s multiple fraudulent reports, two based on Mingo’s fraud, another based on Lowenfield’s arbitrary discard of more than 115,000 votes, and another on Lowenfield’s fraudulent discard of 175,000 votes, will be accepted. This is asking GECOM to commit a crime. This is not just interference, it is intimidation and coercion of an independent statutory body to commit fraud, electoral fraud, electoral theft.
In issuing their despicable statement, they have unequivocally threatened GECOM, the country, and the global stakeholders, including CARICOM, the Commonwealth, the OAS, the ABCE countries, the UN, essentially the whole world, that either GECOM makes a fraudulent declaration for Granger to be illegally sworn in as President, or Guyana will be embroiled in violence. They can huff and puff, they can spin all they want, this is what indecency and dishonesty look like.
Having been blocked in their open, plain-sight attempt to thief the elections, they then tried to use the judiciary to help them thief the elections. While the use of the judiciary has helped them to delay the elections, the judiciary has not fully cooperated for them to thief the elections. Having been brutally slapped by Guyana’s High Court and the CCJ, they are trying one more time with the COA, knowing they can only succeed in further delaying the swearing in of President Irfaan Ali, the actual winner of the elections. They realize that they cannot use the judiciary for any further delaying.
Now they have decided to come out in the open and formally issue their threat – give them what they want or they will resort to what they do best: violent protests; “slow fyah, mo fyah”. At the same time, they have given another option: if GECOM cannot declare them the winner, then maybe the political parties can agree for shared governance, with Granger as President. The PPP won, free and fair. The PPP won by more than 15,000 votes. APNU/AFC lost by almost 25,000 votes.
GECOM must not be intimidated. GECOM is obligated to declare the winner. On the evening of March 2, GECOM knew who the winner was. They had in their possession several copies of the 2,339 Statements of Poll prepared by GECOM’s hand-picked presiding officers.
Having been forced into a recount, GECOM chose its staff to do the recount, Granger chose the only international observer allowed, deeming CARICOM as the most “legitimate interlocutor”, and Lowenfield supervised the recount.
Justice Claudette Singh was present throughout. At the end of the recount, GECOM knew that the recount affirmed what they knew from the original SOPs, that the PPP won by over 15,000 votes.
The ballots cast on March 2 were counted twice, and both times showed the exact results – the PPP won. Dr. Irfaan Ali is President. It has been almost five months. GECOM has not been able to make a declaration because of the shenanigans of Granger’s APNU/AFC and a rigging cabal in GECOM, consisting of APNU/AFC commissioners and Lowenfield, and some in his secretariat.
The time has come for this travesty to end. The time has come for those who gave David Granger the benefit of the doubt to now understand that Guyana is being held hostage by an indecent, dishonest man.

Sincerely,
Dr Leslie Ramsammy