Shuman challenges Harmon to ‘come clean’ on GECOM meddling

Presidential Candidate for the Liberty and Justice Party (LJP), Lennox Shuman has called out Director General of the Ministry of the Presidency (MoTP), Joseph Harmon, over claims that the coalition meddled in the operations at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) in order to influence the outcome of the March 2 General and Regional Elections.

Shuman, in a video message broadcast on social media yesterday, told listeners that Harmon – an executive of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), the largest coalition member – must “come clean” and “let the people know about the delay tactics being employed by the generals in PNC.”

He called on Harmon, to provide an explanation as to the reason low-level GECOM staff would be calling him personally, in relation to anything election-related.
Harmon at a press engagement over the weekend had divulged to reporters that on March 11 last, he had received a telephone call from the Deputy Returning Officer (DRO) at Stewartville, who was complaining about a directive received.
Shuman in another post also accused GECOM of “doing every single thing that they possibly can to stall, delay or boycott the process of getting the recount done.”

He was referring to the agreed to countrywide recount of the votes cast at the March 2, 2020 General and Regional Elections.
According to Shuman, the move to sanitise the Arthur Chung International Conference Centre was, in fact, another delay tactic being employed by GECOM and potentially coalition cohorts.
Shuman posited a suspicion that Head of State, President David Granger is being pressured by his generals to go down the wrong path.
Harmon was adamant, however, that “we do not intervene, neither do we interfere in the work of GECOM” and suggested that when the election process is completed, the coalition will have to get around to working assiduously to pull back opinion that seeks to suggest that as a Government they had a role in any sort of irregularity.
Meanwhile, Shuman, the LJP Presidential Candidate, in a brief tirade also called out the Alliance for Change – the second-largest faction of the coalition – and said the party has morphed into the same evil it had fought under stringent circumstances to dislodge.
The LJP Leader was also critical of the Working Peoples’ Alliance (WPA) and alluded to the fact that Dr Walter Rodney was assassinated in trying to fight for democracy.
He said the current WPA, including the likes of Dr Rupert Roopnaraine have been silenced and have in fact betrayed the principles that their party’s founder leader had died fighting for.