Honesty, decency and integrity mean nothing now to Granger boy

Dear Editor,
David Ganger and his APNU/AFC cabal’s refusal to concede and their challenge to the legitimacy of the elections after losing convincingly to the People’s Progressive Party/Civic, have stunned this nation, the world and the international community. Coming from David Granger, who has preached the slogan from his printed advertisement, honesty, decency and integrity mean nothing now.

Not only did they not concede but the APNU/AFC leaders verbally and alarmingly attacked the international community and local community leaders during their bare face and shameless outreaches trying to fool residents that they have won these elections.
The APNU/AFC leaders must be considered bullies, “wrong and strong”.
Knowing fully well that you lose but pretending to your supporters that you have won is a crime.
It is ironic also that they are using the COVID-19 $30,000 handout to bribe people to attend their meetings and outreaches, when these cheques should have been given to the community leaders for distributions.

Editor, let us remind the APNU/AFC coalition that no outreach or public meeting can erase what is written in stone – that is, a win for the PPP/C by over 15,000 votes.
The PNCR increasingly levels accusations of trickery and illegality to explain their election loss. But the People’s Progressive Party/Civic didn’t issue similar claims of illegitimacy when the APNU/ AFC claimed that they won the election in 2015 despite activists were being convinced of election fraud.
We have the PNCR, a party that has a long history of rigging and stealing elections whose defence is to attack everybody else, it is a strategy.

The APNU/AFC these days present themselves as presumed “losers”. It’s almost as if they believe they have a divine right to win. So now that they lost Guyana’s 2020 General and Regional Elections, the APNU/AFC, PNCR and the PNC feel it must have been stolen from them.

David Granger and the APNU/AFC, PNCR have only themselves to blame for their failure during the five years in office. Which resulted in a People’s Progressive Party/Civic victory at the 2020 General Election, but what is most important now is what happens going forward.

Dr Irfaan Ali and the PPP/C have a rare and golden opportunity to retrieve Guyana from its long history of racial and divisive politics by recognising that the majority of the people of the country did not support the APNU/AFC at these elections notwithstanding the economic failures they have achieved in the last five years.
Other issues played a much larger role and those issues included a perception of neglect of disadvantaged communities by the APNU/AFC including sugar workers, marginalisation of Guyanese intellectuals who have been excluded from top Government positions; and a general view that high APNU/AFC had benefited hugely from their time in Government.

Also in the context that they paid no attention to their stronghold areas. Regretfully, Region 10, and shown considerable popular hostility to the working-class people which was the prescription for their disaster.
Dr Ifraan Ali, let good sense prevail during your presidency. There are many Guyanese that need you to work closely with the small political parties and make every effort to talk to the leaders of these small opposition parties.
It would be the best interest of Guyana, and it would ensure that prosperity and stability can be built on the People’s Progressive Party/Civic’s recent economic success and the definite prospects for immediate and continuous economic growth as a result of mining of gold, bauxite and manganese, with the expectation, to earn the country billions of dollars, as well as the real possibility of oil production.

The future for the Guyana economy and the Guyanese people could be glowing if such a course is followed. If ever there was a time in the tides of a country’s fortunes that requires its politicians to put their narrow political interests to one side for the greater interest of the nation, that time is now. The vast majority of people of Guyana are now frightened and worried.

The country’s small political parties and the People’s Progressive Party/Civic leaders have the chance to turn that fear and worry to relief, hope and confidence. Guyana, at last, could begin to realise the potential it has long held out.
Community leaders, leaders in the Caribbean and the world should call on David Granger and the leaders of APNU and AFC not to condemn our country to ruin and our people to the rack.

History is in their hands. The next generation will be young people, students who would have seen all the wrongs they have committed during this 2020 electoral process and how they have trampled on the will of the Guyanese people, which will be recorded as a part of the history books. Every Guyanese must see by now that David Granger and his PNCR cabal’s intention is to push Guyana and the Guyanese people to great political instability, social unrest and a major reversal of their recent economic misfortune. Let us rally behind Dr Irfaan Ali as Guyana’s ninth executive President.

Sincerely,
David Adams