…of the PNC are back
As the PNC circle the wagons to hunker down and ride out the fire-storm they unleashed upon themselves when they Mingoed the Reg 4 SOPs, their old hardliners are coming out of the woodwork to throw in their 2 cents’ worth. Leading the pack was Hamilton Green – all newly decorated with an “Order of Roraima”, and sustained with a princely pension of $2million monthly – who cussed out the Carter Center even before they landed in Guyana to observe the elections!!
He insisted that coming from the American Deep South (Atlanta, Georgia), they were a bunch of Rednecks heading down in their white sheets and peaked white masks to have us start pickin’ cotton again!! Green, of course, never forgot or forgave Carter for standing him down when he and his goons attacked the Elections Center in 1992 to stop the counting.
Burnhamite Vincent Alexander, neutered by Robert Corbin back in the day, has sewn on a pair to wage guerrilla warfare for the PNC from within GECOM.
There are other fringe players from the Alexander faction – like James McAllister – who’d also cut and run, but now see an opportunity to get some oil money by doing what the PNC does best: insist that bellicosity and bullyism are democracy!! Another one is one Lurlene Nestor, who just penned a philippic to the GECOM Chair: “Recount of votes is akin to elections petition through the backdoor”, in the Chronic.
She thought she was clever to throw shade on some who’d criticised the PNC’s blatant rigging: “Madam Chairperson…I am no retired army brigadier/former chairman of GECOM, nor am I some former ambassador or knighted professor. I am no wealthy businessman, neither am I some presidential hopeful, minister or former minister. I have never been president or opposition leader of Guyana. No, I am not one from the recognised prestigious social classes. I am no former TV station owner, nor do I own or have friends in the print or electronic media. Madam Chair, I am not deeply connected to the “power brokers” of the land, and I’ve never set my eyes on $34 million US dollars. Justice Singh, I am an ordinary person who understands right from wrong.”
What she didn’t say was that she was a PNC MP who was quite hysterical during Hoyte’s “slow fyaah; mo fyaah” attack on our democracy circa 2001. She returned to the fray after Corbin stepped aside for Granger, and in 2014 launched “Operation Sus-Out and Boycott”.
She demanded that “every business in Guyana to place a banner or a placard on their business which reads: ‘WE SAY NO TO PPP/C DICTATORSHIP” Or else they’d be boycotted!
That’s democracy for the PNC!!
…PNC argument for rigging
Nestor champions a new twist by the PNC, that goes beyond the “recount” PNC leader Granger called in Caricom to witness, and to which the GECOM Chair and Commission have agreed. Not so incidentally, she avoided being snarky about the Caricom leaders who brutally condemned the Mingoing – like Mottley and Golding.
These hardliners are still hoping Caricom leaders would cleave to the fraternity of the skin and turn a blind eye to the PNC’s shenanigans – as they’d once done for Burnham.
They’ve gone past Alexander and company’s outlandish “audit”, and want the PPP to protest via an elections petition!! She’d know, of course, that the PPP did file such a petition on the 2015 elections – which still hasn’t been heard in the courts!! These extremists’ argument is that there has been a declaration of the results in all ten regions – which was submitted to the CEO.
And what about the Mingoed Reg 4 numbers?? For which he faces contempt of court charges?
Not to worry! That’s PNC democracy for you!!
…are lobbying
After cussing out the US Ambassador for “daring” to talk about democratic norms to a sovereign nation, the PNC hired a US lobbyist to calm feathers. Using taxpayers’ money!
Wouldn’t it have been easier to just show those SOPs??
