Dear Editor,
In a rare Facebook post, Mrs. Sandra Granger, First Lady, declared that “The People’s victory must not be stolen. Every Region Every Box Every ballot MUST BE COUNTED” with the APNU+AFC symbol.
During the 5 weeks since the March 2 general and regional elections, Mrs. Granger has not uttered one word in defence of the Guyanese people’s right to have their votes counted in a free, fair, transparent and credible manner.
She has been conspicuously silent:-
-on the March 5th and March 13th, tabulation and verification exercises of Region 4 which all the international and local observers, and opposition parties declared were not transparent and not credible;
-when the Chief Justice orders of March 11th and 12th were openly trampled on by RO Mingo and CEO Lowenfield;
-when an APNU candidate legally represented by another APNU candidate approached the court and effectively demolished the agreement signed by her husband as President and leader of the APNU to bring a High Level CARICOM Team to recount the votes of Region 4 and all the regions;
– with regard to the March 17th statement by the Chair-person of the Caribbean Community, PM Mia Mottley, that “It is clear that there are forces that do not want to see the votes recounted for whatever reason. Any Government which is sworn in without a credible and fully transparent vote count process would lack legitimacy”;
-on the recent Chief Justice and Court of Appeal rulings that upheld the position that the recount should proceed;
– in the face of the threats of sanctions to Guyana from the Commonwealth, the Organiza-tion of American States, the European Union, top officials of the US, UK and other foreign governments;
Mrs. Granger had to have known from the night of March 4th latest —as does her husband the President and all of the PNC/APNU+AFC leadership—that the APNU+AFC had lost the elections. Which political party and their spokespersons have been delaying the completion of the last and largest Region from being counted in compliance with the law and the court orders? Who has been responsible for attempting to steal the people’s votes? Who has placed the country in jeopardy of being globally sanctioned? Only one – the APNU+AFC Coalition in collusion with GECOM – has been responsible for attempting to steal the people’s votes and thereby placing Guyana in a terrible and precarious state.
Suddenly Mrs. Granger seems to have received an epiphany on April 12th, Easter Sunday no less, that has awoken her from her somnambulistic state.
Yours faithfully,
Gail Teixeira
