PPP General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo today condemned a statement last night by APNU+AFC that the March 2nd general elections were not credible because of an alleged high incidence of fraud.
A statement by Jagdeo follows:
No one should be surprised by APNU+AFC’s latest description of the 2nd March 2020 National and Regional elections, as “not credible”. It has been the APNU+AFC’s desperate mantra, the moment Clairmont Mingo was caught attempting to perpetrate massive fraud in the tabulation of Electoral District number four (4) to their benefit. They fought determinedly for Mingo’s fraudulent declarations to prevail. They never wanted a recount of the ballots. They even went to the Court to stop it. They tried at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to stop it. In the end, all their efforts failed. They knew that once the ballots were recounted, it would confirm the accuracy of the Statements of Poll (SOPs), which they continue to hide from public scrutiny.
As the recount enters its last phase, it is not only confirming Mingo’s massive fraud, but it is confirming the accuracy of the SOPs and it is making their worst nightmare a reality, that is, that the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) won the elections by over 15,000 votes.
We call upon Guyanese not to be distracted by the rantings of the APNU+AFC. It is nothing new. It is the nation’s expectation that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will declare the results of the recount, in accordance with its amended Order. The law and the Constitution provide a recourse for those who are aggrieved by the results of an election.