Lowenfield, stop playing “hide-and-seek”

Dear Editor,
If, for some reason, you were born in Guyana before 1970, in growing up, your parents taught you that right is right and wrong is wrong. Our parents taught us that we should be honest in all our dealings, even at the price of us having to lose. I am sure many parents today still teach their children these values. But how many of them live by that example?

A difficult, unpleasant and embarrassing political predicament has now emerged after the Chairperson had made it excruciatingly clear that GECOM has no jurisdiction to determine the credibility of an election, or to arrogate to itself the jurisdiction to annul an election. The Chair has already directed the Chief Elections Officer to use the results of the recount to prepare and submit a Report “for consideration by the Commission” pursuant to Article 177 (2) (b) of the Constitution and Section 96 of the Representation of the People Act.

David Granger, Joseph Harmon, Mr Lowenfield and the PNCR rigging cabals are, even at this late stage, refusing to concede that they have lost the 2020 General and Regional Elections. They continue to fabricate one specious argument after another in their futile efforts to hold out the illusion of hope to misguide their 40% support base. Joseph Harmon continues to preach his new narrative: that section 96 of the Representation of the People Act confers upon the Chief Election Officer a power to ascertain the validity of votes, and that he can only calculate votes that he determines to be valid.

Editor, is Joseph Harmon for real? This is the moral dilemma we have seen historically facing this nation and inflicted by the PNCR. Guyanese, what Forbes Burnham got away with in 1968, 1973, and 1980 will not repeat itself; Guyana’s newly elected president, Ifraan Ali, has emerged from a legitimate process.
The shameless and barefaced actions which are being promoted by the PNCR are symptomatic of the moral crisis facing this nation.

Until we are able to fix this moral crisis which faces our nation, we will continue to move backwards. Once we have such elements as the PNCR engaged in our political process, no amount of oil wealth would be able to help develop this nation. Persons like Joseph Harmon are knee-deep in the marshes of dishonesty and unprincipled behaviour.
It is public knowledge that Mr Lowenfield has already submitted to the Commission the total valid votes cast for each List of Candidates for the General and Regional Elections, as generated by the National Recount exercise. I am attaching two documents submitted by the Chief Election Officer in which these tabulations are contained. It should be noted that each of these documents bears a caption: “total valid votes cast”.

Mr Lowenfield, any report prepared without using the totals of the votes cast, which you have already submitted to the Commission, would amount to a conspiracy to commit electoral fraud in Common Law, and that is a most grievous offence which can attract a penalty as severe as life imprisonment.

Those who are in the conspiracy with you would be exposed to the same criminal liabilities. Lowenfield, stop playing “hide-and-seek”, be a man and face the nation, and present the true report to the GECOM Chairman.
Guyanese, in event that Mr. Lowenfield persists in subverting the elections results by using erroneous figures in the preparation of his report, GECOM has sufficiently wide powers under Article 162 of the Constitution to declare the results of the elections, as produced by the National Recount exercise.

Shame on you, Mr Granger, Joseph Harmon and Mr Lowenfield, the world and the people of Guyana are looking on. As a historian, Mr David Granger, you will go down in history as Guyana’s President of failures.

Sincerely
David Adams