…finally?
Granger’s claim to fame (and legitimacy) was he’d been able to cobble together a coalition that “represented” the people of Guyana. Well, two of those parties in the coalition are now saying there should be a recount of the votes. Meaning that, like Granger’s son-in-law, Gaskin, they really don’t believe Mingo’s numbers. Granger and his supporters will probably retort that these two parties don’t really count ‘cause they don’t have any support from the masses. But that would remove the veil behind which he was dancing his seven dances of legitimacy, wouldn’t it?!! Old people do say that, “all smart fly does land in cow backside”!!
And then there were two. Don’t even think of “four” since even Granger can’t even remember the name of Keith Scott’s “party” and his PNC comrades cussed out Allicock’s GAP folks from Reg 9 for being “ungrateful”! They really believed the racist stereotype of Amerindians voting for anyone who gives them a handout! The question rises as to where’s the AFC leaders in all of this drama?? Well, looks like Trotman and Patterson have gone home to the PNC. Prodigal sons and all!
In the job he was given after 2015 – being a weekly Chronic columnist – Nagamootoo confessed that his son-in-law asked him to do something in the present political crisis: “If it feels wrong to take action, it is the right time. If it feels right to take action, you are too late.” And guess what?? At a time when old PNC stalwart and architect of the Burnhamite regime Sonny Ramphal had advised that Granger should submit to a recount, all Nagamootoo could come up with was, “before the declaration of the elections results, the political leaders must commit to a government of national unity.” Not even a word about a recount!! Even the WPA, which had defended the PNC for five years, called for a recount!!
And Ramjattan?? After he’d surfaced all hot and sweaty to accuse the PPP of bringing in Russian agents to “hack the elections” where only pencils and paper were used, he hasn’t been sighted. He did say that two of the three Russian Agents had been deported, but the third was loose. Could it be that because the Police Force is all taken up with “Total National Defence” against all those protesters keeping vigil over the ballot boxes at GECOM, he’s personally tracking down the Missing Russian Agent??
But we know, Dear Reader, Ramjattan and Nagamootoo really can’t back out. They had made the classic Faustian bargain: traded their souls to Granger for “power”. If the PNC can’t get back in, Nagamootoo at least has his pension.
Ramjattan will be reduced to panhandling on Regent Street!!
…or tilting at windmills
Both ACDA and the WPA didn’t just call for a recount. They made it conditional on a “government of national unity”, by whichever party wins the election!! But there’s a problem with their proposal: raised back in 2015 by Granger who’d not only promised Nagamootoo a Prime Ministership on steroids, but a reduction of his presidential powers. “IT WASN’T CONSTITUTIONAL”!!
If it wasn’t constitutional then to alter the constitutional stipulations governing the formation of the Executive by a victorious party, how can it be constitutional now?? And the WPA and ACDA are sticklers for the Constitution, aren’t they?? Heck…they’re insisting that GECOM be in charge of the recount – Mingo and all – because the Regulations of the Representation of the People Act – not even the Constitution – says that!!
But ACDA and the WPA are tilting at windmills. Fighting a battle that’s now been resolved. If the PPP won the elections, that means African-Guyanese have moved on and voted across the divide!!
But that would put ACDA and WPA out of a job, no??
…on COVID-19
This coronavirus pandemic isn’t the occasion for us to mess around. Our counterattack must be headed by an expert team – from across the divide.
Not by Volda Lawrence who only has “wuk” for PNC people!!
