This is definitely the joke of the century!

Dear Editor,
I am following a newspaper article in the Demerara Waves captioned, “High Court asked to stop PNCR Congress in the interest of reform, ending division; PPP and PNC named in related lawsuit on preventing unfair elections from infecting general elections.”
Quite a mouthful, one would agree, but “How did we get here?” is the question. Well, the last part of that lengthy caption says it all: “Preventing unfair elections from infecting general elections”; and here’s the crux of the matter.
It means that at least one person, Mr. Brian Collison, has finally accepted the ghastly fact that his party is deeply entrenched in rigging, and it’s time to come clean. But isn’t he making a fool of himself, knowing fully well how sacred rigging is to his party?
Come on, Mr Collison, the PNC are proud of their ways, and staunchly defend those ways, so trying to put up a case against a rigging PNC is simply ludicrous.
What I can assure this gentleman is that, on a national scale, rigging is dead, never to be resurrected; and those who were complicit in that practice during the 2020 Elections would be dealt with swiftly and condignly.
In the first place, why lecture our party on elections and electoral matters when the PPP is known to be a transparent body that carries out all its mandates in a clean and dignified way?
Mr. Collison needs to carry his lecture series to the PNC. To strengthen my point, you just have to take a quick look at all PNC elections and you will get the clear message of a party that is not at peace with itself. All of the PNC congresses I am familiar with were held in a cloud of controversy. A case in point was the selection of David Granger; in that messy affair, there was gunplay, which is a signature statement of the party’s horrible dealings when power and position come into play.
As we say in Creolese, “Why bring your dutty calico and wash it in public?”. Just keep your nastiness to yourself.
Now, is this PNCR member serious? I mean, is this PNCR member really serious in what he is asking a court of law to address? Why would he want the PPP to be a pallbearer in this PNC cortege procession?
I just cannot fathom, but to navigate around the question, we would say the PPP would have nothing to do with the demise of the PNC, lest they turn again and blame us for their misfortune. Let the breakup of that party be the workmanship of their own hands; do not drag the PPP into that messy affair.
The stark reality is that the chickens have come home to roost. The rigging dogma that they have held so near to their hearts has finally reached its fulfillment. The PNC is a lost cause.
But stranger things have happened when you consider what took place during the last general elections. Guyana’s political landscape was held up for five long months with a legal challenge to determine that 34 was considered as the sole majority number when discussing what constitutes a majority in a 65-seat Parliament. In that ridiculous lawsuit, the legendary half-man genius phenomenon came up for discussion. That legal battle dragged on for months, until it finally reached an end when the apex court ruled against it.
We are now about to hear another one of those frivolous and vexatious matters. Is this what our courts are set up to do? Why bog down a court with such non-essential matters? I think a heavy fine in costs for wasting the court’s time should be brought to bear on this litigant who filed such a case.

Respectfully
submitted,
Neil Adams