All the President’s men and women

Dear Editor,
Recently, I have seen a number of articles by various prominent writers about a Cabal of PNC/AFC officials bringing to bear influence and pressure presumably on the President and senior party leadership to go along with the GECOM-managed plot to hijack the elections and prevent or delay the rightful winner from taking office.
I disagree with this kind of analysis, as it is my firm belief that the President and all of his senior party leaders in both APNU and AFC, along with former cabinet ministers and senior operatives in various Government Ministries and GECOM Secretariat, and possibly Chairwoman et al are in cahoots in this heinous plot to take illegal control of the reins of Government.

Except for some token statements from Dominic Gaskin, Rupert Roopnaraine and CN Sharma — and one suspects that even these are due to some fear of sanctions for themselves and families — there has been total silence in the main by APNU supporters, and, of course very disconcertingly, by the African intelligentsia, notwithstanding observations and comments by the likes of Dr. Henry Jeffrey and others, who try to put prodigious spin on their viewpoints and would not call a rig a rig, or at least call on Mr Granger to concede that APNU plus AFC has lost.

I call on the likes of Carl Greenidge, Ronald Bulkan, Jaipaul Sharma and other seemingly decent persons to find their courage and disassociate themselves from this raw and brazen banditry foisted on the people of our dear land of Guyana by their party.

Editor, we really have the entire APNU/AFC, who clearly condone the actions of the former President Granger and his henchmen and henchwomen in this most barefaced and unprecedented “coup” seen in the Western Hemisphere with every trick in the book brought into action.

They participated in the elections knowing the rules of one man one vote with the winner taking power; alas, it seems either they were fooled by their own propaganda or had this Plan H (read Hijack) planned some time ago.
If the outgoing President and his supporters had any belief in shared governance, they would have articulated this clearly over the last 5 years, but it is clear as Sahara Desert daylight that they did not believe in this concept, and would not share governance with the Opposition East Indian-dominated party.

Anyone with a modicum of common sense knows that the President has to accept full responsibility for this state of affairs, as the proverbial buck stops at his desk without a doubt, and he cannot justify his total reticence over the last month plus.

Editor, it has been said that many are close to the Church but far from God and, indeed, spirituality. I am definitely amazed at the President and many of his acolytes, who profess to be good Christians but seem to think this gives them some right to commit serious transgressions against Guyana and its people without any heavenly sanctions.
One thing I am sure about is that they are wrong, and the Laws of Karma will not bypass them, as they have cost this country much in wasted time and funds, as the country is at a standstill with a raging and deadly virus at the door step, which will take no prisoners!

I therefore make a stirring plea for the President to wake up or come to his senses immediately, and concede power to the main Opposition party, PPP/C, knowing full well from his party agents’ SOPs that APNU/AFC were roundly and fairly beaten, not because of the brilliance of the main Opposition, but largely because of the ineptitude displayed by Mr. Granger and his band of pathetic merry men and women, who managed to make even the Donald Ramotar Administration look good.

Yours sincerely,
Chris Persaud