Dear Editor,
Our thanks to the Ministry of the Presidency (MoP) for assuring that Mr Granger –illegal president since the No Confidence Motion, now in a caretaker role — does not have the coronavirus.
So, now we have to ask the question: Why is he acting in the irrational way he is, that has no logic or makes no sense whatsoever, in a time of a looming national health crisis?
How can a normal president ask a Caricom team to come and monitor the counting of ballots, and then have one of his candidates file court action against it, and the team has to return home? What is Caricom and the international community thinking about us as a nation and people? How does Mr Granger explain that the Full Court ruled that his candidate has no right to challenge the Caricom recount, and refuse to grant a stay as there is no merit in their case, yet Mr. Granger’s candidate has filed an appeal? And Mr Granger looks at the nation in its face and says he supports a Caricom recount!
So, if the MoP says Mr Granger does not have some disease that makes him act irrationally, I say we need a second opinion.
What Mr Granger is suffering from is the old Burnham rigging virus, and that seemingly incurable disease is called “riggeritis.”
So, let’s look at the patient’s history. By itself, the PNC has never won an election. The greatest admirer of Burnham was the PNC’s rep on GECOM, Mr Alexander, who kept Burnham’s ideas going through the Burnham Foundation. But in comes Mr Granger, who bested that by giving over his personal house to various Burnham Foundation activities. Now, that’s a real fan! I almost did not vote for Mr Granger in 2015, because he never renounced Burnhamism and that was a litmus test for me, but I gave him the benefit of the doubt and voted for him and the Coalition. (My apologies to the nation. Didn’t know they would turn out to be such a big failure!).
So while the coronavirus is a serious national emergency, we should not allow the PNC to use that to perpetuate their illegal rule. They have already stolen a month since the election, and stolen a year in power since their defeat at the No Confidence Vote.
We must battle both the Corona disease and the riggeritis disease concurrently. I disagree with a line of thinking being peddled that we should focus on the Corona virus and let the riggeritis virus slide. (It took 28 years to defeat the PNC riggeritis virus. It will take less time to defeat the coronavirus.
So, let’s not gamble our future and leave the PNC in power). An illegal regime is in a weakened state to effectively lead or marshall international assistance at a time of crisis. If the PNC really cares about the country, the only choice available is for Mr. Granger to put an end to all the PNC’s shenanigans, come clean, and invite the Caricom team and any available international and local observers to observe the elections. If done in an open, transparent, honest process in front of the media and observers and televised live to the nation, the people will support the winner.
However, the GECOM Chair must send the Chief and Deputy Elections Officer and Reverend Mingo on administrative leave while the count is being done. It’s over to the GECOM Chair to act with decisiveness and utmost speed to wrap this up, so that the new Government can lead us forward. Stop traumatising the nation!
Sincerely,
Dr Jerry Jailall
