General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday described as an “abuse of court” the most recent legal challenge filed against the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).
“They went to ask the Court to Order that the Commission must use Lowenfield’s report… which contains Mingo’s fraudulent figure…They are asking the Court to say that a statutory officer’s advice which is false must be used and that the Commission has no power to Order anything different… this is what they expect the court to endorse, fraud, to endorse electoral fraud,” he explained during a video statement.
Attorney Mayo Robertson on behalf of yet another private citizen has approached the High Court seeking to have GECOM be compelled to declare the results of the March 2 election based on a July 9 report submitted by Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield.
“This is the crux of the matter…asking to Court to direct GECOM which it has no power to do… they are asking the court to allow the use of fraudulent numbers to declare the results of the elections based on, in their view, some technicality,” Jagdeo consistently repeated.
He stressed that the CEO cannot submit a report of any number he wishes rather it must be grounded in either a count or a recount.
“The recount has overtaken the Count. His report must be derived from that,” he reiterated.
The former president took pains to point out that Lowenfield was not only present for the duration of the recount but actively participating.
“Incredibly the same Lowenfield has now produced a report to GECOM to say that 475,000 people voted…15,000 votes more than are actually in the box[es], that APNU won these elections and he expects the court in Guyana to say, yes you can use that report although it has fraudulent numbers,” Jagdeo lamented.
