The APNU/AFC is now attempting to steal a whole country

Dear Editor,
It is said that shortly after the decision by the Court of Appeal, APNU/AFC leaders across the various regions resorted back to spread propaganda and create mischief amongst their support bases and concluded: “that on the basis of the valid votes, the incumbent Coalition Government will be re-elected for a second term”. This information is absolutely misleading and false.

Guyanese must be aware that there were six separate orders and/or declarations. Of these, five were dispatched in short order and rejected.
Among those rejected were declarations that:
1. A declaration that GECOM failed to act in accordance with the terms of the recount Order No 60 of 2020 which was carefully crafted to favour the APNU/AFC.
2. An order restraining Lowenfield from complying with the direction of the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission in relation to Article 177 (2) (b) which would give the Presidency to Dr Irfaan Ally.
3. An order restraining Lowenfield from complying with the direction of the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission in a letter dated the 16th day of June 2020 to submit an Elections Report under Section 96 of the Representation of the People Act without the Guyana Elections Commission determining the final credible count and or the credibility of the results of the General and Regional Elections.
4. An order restraining the Chief Elections Officer from submitting to the Guyana Elections Commission on Elections Report under Article 177 (2) (b) of the Constitution containing votes which are not credible within the meaning of Order No 60 of 2020.
5. An order restraining the Chief Elections Officer from submitting to the Elections Commission an Elections Report under Section 96 of the Representation of the People Act which allocates regional and top-up seats to the parties.

The only order which the court granted was that there be an interpretation of the words “more votes are cast” in Article 177 (2) (b) of the Constitution of Guyana. The court ruled that this means valid votes while rejecting the attempt to have inserted the notion of credible votes.

The APNU/AFC had lost the elections and “the APNU/AFC is now attempting to steal a whole country”. The Statements of Recount which were endorsed by GECOM, local and international observers and the Caricom scrutineering team counted only valid votes as defined. Mr Granger and the APNU/AFC continue to play a dangerous and opportunistic game in building the hopes of the supporters of the coalition when in fact even their court options are running out.

The decision by the Court of Appeal has added nothing and has taken away nothing from the March elections. At the end of all these shenanigans and timewasting that is costing the country billions, there is no doubt the PPP/C has won the March 2, 2020 elections by over 15,000 votes. Ever since APNU/AFC became aware of this reality they have done everything possible to thwart the will of the electorate and to prevent Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) from declaring the true results of those elections. The world has condemned APNU/AFC’s actions but yet they continue to employ one strategy after another in their efforts to hold on to Government illegally and trample on the will of the Guyanese people.

However, there is enough evidence that during the recount exercise, the valid votes in each ballot box were totalled and placed upon a Statement of Recount. Each Statement of Recount in each Electoral District was then tabulated by GECOM staff, resulting in the end, the total valid votes for each Electoral District, which was certified, again, by GECOM staff.

These total valid votes were then tabulated by the Chief Elections Officer and presented to the Commission as the total valid votes cast for the Regional elections and total valid votes cast for the National elections, showing the total valid votes received by each political party

It was clear that in a conspiracy, the Chief Elections Officer’s plan was to disenfranchise some 275,000 Guyanese who voted on March 2, 2020, consisting of approximately 60 per cent of the persons who voted at those elections and thereby giving APNU/AFC a two-thirds majority in the National Assembly! He plans to do so by merely acting upon the false. Mr Lowenfield, you will get the opportunity to act on these hearsay and untested allegations of APNU/AFC and without conducting any investigation and upon affording no voter, or any other political party an opportunity to be heard, to test these allegations, or to lead any evidence of their own. Mr Lowenfield, you have no power or authority to do any such thing. You are a disappointment to the Guyanese people.

Sincerely,
David Adams