Granger, PNC have brought much shame, embarrassment to Guyana

Dear Editor,
The PNC, fighting hard to delay its day of judgment, has brought much embarrassment and shame to our beloved country as it races towards self-destruction.
We were starting to get good press: that with the discovery of oil, we are a nation on the rise and would be the richest in the region: the Dubai of the Caribbean, with all roads leading to Guyana. Now we have become the sick man of Caricom and the sick man of the OAS; the sick man of the Commonwealth, and even the Secretary General of the United Nations has rung in on the PNC’s crude, vulgar, open attempt to steal the elections and install itself as a dictatorship.
We have retrogressed from “potential” to “pariah” status. It’s the Granger PNC versus the rest of the world. Everybody is now “washing their mouths” on us.
This past Wednesday was a bad day for the hard mouth, hard ears PNC and its leader, Mr Granger. On his birthday, the world, which they kicked against and cussed out in every imaginable way because it asked the PNC to respect democracy, gave Mr. Granger some bad birthday gifts with sanctions like a ton of bricks coming from right, left and centre.
Despite their US$40,000 a month lobbying group telling them sanctions will not come if they steal the elections, the USA, Canada and UK have so far announced sanctions are here, and more are coming, with the US Secretary of State clearly asking Mr. Granger’s PNC to “step aside.” That’s a sharp rebuke.
On top of that, Dr Ralph Gonsalves, current Chair of CARICOM, made a release which everyone should read. It summarises the electoral wickedness of the PNC, and described its behaviour as “demonic.”
Not to be outdone, the head of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee rang in, and others have condemned the Granger regime for refusing to demit office. Next week, the OAS is set to hold a Permanent Council meeting to discuss the Guyana “election problem”, and the CARICOM Heads of Government are also set to hold a meeting on our election dysfunctions.
We are now a “problem child” to the world in a manner similar to other dictatorships across the globe. CARICOM and OAS countries are not thrilled that Guyana has given the US an opening to impose sanctions on a country in the region.
That’s never a good thing, but the PNC has never acted in the national interest when it engages in rigging at all cost and by any means necessary. All that matters is staying in power. Mr. Granger should heed the advice of his son-on-law and tell the truth to the PNC supporters: that they lost the election.
Many major newspapers and media have featured this story of Guyana’s electoral fraud by the PNC, damaging our image as a decent, democratic nation, thanks to the one now being called the “sanctimonious gangster” and his out-of-control PNC refusing to concede and demit office.
For a man who intentionally set out to choreograph that image of an honest man kneeling in church praying, taking communion; a grandfatherly Christian gentleman (which I bought and supported him in 2015), Mr. Granger will leave office disgraced, as someone whose party used every trick imaginable and unimaginable to retain political power, despite his government being defeated at the December 2018 No Confidence Vote, defeated by 25,000 votes at the 2016 Local Government Election (LGE), defeated by 40,000 votes at the 2018 LGE, and now defeated by 15,000+ votes at the March 2, 2020 election.
Coming to power through enormous goodwill from crossover voters, whom he lost in 2020, Granger has sullied his name by being too wedded to the ways of his idol, the PNC’s founder rigger Forbes Burnham. Once Burnham got into power in 1964, he rigged every election, and never gave up until death knocked at his door when he went into the Georgetown Hospital for cancer surgery.
Mr Granger’s refusal to concede the election held over 135 days ago has revived the ghost of Burnhamism, and the spectre of the PNC seizing power again has raised up those old traumas, anxieties, hurts, and fears of the rigging years.
The PNC was on a collision course with truth and democracy, and seemed to have purposed in its heart that it would not give up, regardless of what the election results say. As former PNCite Mr. Fenty warned us, the PNC will stay in power “by any means necessary.” Its antics are like slow torture to the nation. It has worn us down with one frivolous lawsuit after another, and its refusal to concede that it has lost had been a daily mental and physical cruelty to everyone. People have told me they could not sleep, and are tormented as they agonize over the Guyana election situation.
The PNC and its acolytes will regret chasing out the ambassadors and observers from the Ashmin’s Building; for cussing them out and calling them nasty, racist, vile names on Facebook; and for harassing local and foreign media people and anyone who said rigging was wrong. One of the lowest points of the PNC antics is parading a coffin with a doll in it, with people punching it and calling out GECOM Chair Claudette Singh’s name. This low act was not condemned by anyone in the party or by any pastor.
Hopefully, the PNC’s antics will reach the end soon, and the rightful PPP government will assume office.

Sincerely,
Jerry Singh