Why… the recount calls?

On Wednesday, when your Eyewitness heard the calls from Aubrey and Sanction Man for recounts in Reg Four and 10 and Reg Four and Eight respectively, he involuntarily moaned, “Here we go again!!” Which caused quite a lotta heads to swivel his way in the restaurant where he was taking in some daily bread!! He did so because by then all of the SoPs had been posted by GECOM on their site – as promised as part of their reform after the innovations of Comrade Mingo!! And some diligent media houses, along with a host of amateur election watchers, had collated them and compiled the votes for the six parties who’d contested the elections!
It showed that the numbers were PPP 242,498 votes, handing them 36 seats; WIN 109,066 votes and 18 seats; APNU/PNC 77,998 votes and 12 seats; Amanza’s FGM 4326 votes and one seat; AFC 3610 and zero seats; and finally, Broomes ALP 969 votes and zero seats. Now while Aubrey has to be devastated at the almost complete annihilation of the PNC, he should know that no recount’s gonna overcome the PPP’s 164,500 lead over his party!! And as for Sanction Man, the same question holds – what’s a recount going to change??
So there gotta be another reason. If Aubrey’s trying to save face by showing the PPP might’ve pushed the envelope on some Commonwealth citizens voting – which is no more than a couple of thousand at max and wouldn’t matter to the bottom line – what’s Sanction Man’s motive?? With his clobbering the PNC that’s been around for more than six decades compared to his six months – you’d think he’d be smirking behind his shades all the way to Parliament!! Of course, for reasons we all know, he can’t smirk all the way to the bank!!
Did this fella really think he could defeat the PPP and the PNC to become President – with immunity from prosecution on local crimes?? If he did, then he’s certainly not the shrewd operator his old man made him out to be!! But then we all know about doting fathers – not to mention pushy sisters who missed out on the ill-gotten gains inheritance because of old-fashioned patriarchal values!! While the PNC was already on the ropes because of internal bloodletting and following its coalition partner WPA’s Black Pudding Man advice to discount crossover votes, the PPP had a young Presidential candidate backing up HIS charismatic appeal to one and all with a solid five-year record!!
Whatever Sanction Man could do, Irfaan Ali can do it so much better!! And then again, he doesn’t need no teleprompter to deliver any speech – much less just two sentences!!
Even the Scrapes gonna be saying, “Nuff respect!!”

… the exodus?
Now here it is: your Eyewitness had bemoaned the exit of all those executives – past and present – from the PNC to the PPP in the leadup to the elections as an “exodus”. But when he looks at the number of voters who’ve deserted Aubrey in these elections – 139,922 from the 217,920 they snagged in 2020 to a now pitiful 77,998 in 2025 – the only viable analogy is that other Biblical event of folks moving out dubbed the “Rapture”, which is gonna happen at the end of time!!
Well, for Aubrey, while it may not be the end of time, it certainly looks like it’s the end of the line. In 2006 Corbin had lost six seats to the AFC – and he soon stepped aside – and here Aubrey’s lost 20 to WIN!! And not just any votes – but from traditional PNC fortresses – Linden, Buxton, Albuoystown and Sophia – including 60 per cent from Norton’s home village, Plaisance!!
Can the PNC be rebuilt – even WITHOUT Norton?? It’s possible, but not probable!!

…Nigerians or gold?
One of Sanction Man’s ambitious sisters claims the PPP smuggled Nigerians from Suriname to Region Eight – and wants this investigated in their demand for a recount!! Is this similar to the gold smuggled to Reg Eight from Venezuela??