The Ministry of the Presidency (MoTP) has flayed commentator Ralph Ramkarran for his column in the last Sunday Stabroek where he criticised President David Granger over his handling of nominees for the chairmanship of GECOM and for not accepting that he must fix a date for general election since article 106(6) and (7) of the constitution have been activated.
In a lengthy statement on Sunday on Ramkarran’s contribution entitled `The President is transporting Guyana into a dystopian reality’, MoTP noted that the Senior Counsel is also a co-founder of A New and United Guyana and that he had seemingly joined the anti-government critics who have “sought to distort” the President’s actions relative to the appointment of a GECOM Chair and the holding of General and Regional Elections (GRE).
Ramkarran had charged that Granger was virtually demanding to name the GECOM Chairman by insisting that his nominees be placed on the list of six “not unacceptable” names to be submitted by Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo. Ramkarran’s column was written before the selection on Friday of Justice (Rtd) Claudette Singh as GECOM Chairman by Granger from a list supplied by Jagdeo. Nevertheless Ramkarran said the column remained relevant.
