Concede with dignity and you may also be honourably rewarded

Jun 25, 2020 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

I am very disappointed in President Granger’s behaviour on the recount and his silence in the submission of a yet again fraudulent declaration (this time by Lowenfield saying the Coalition has won the elections).
It is un-godly for the President and the Coalition to claim victory amidst deliberate fraud to undo the verdict of the people. In their hearts, the President and those in the Coalition know they lost. The supporters also know and accept defeat. The President’s son-in-law and family members concede that we lost. Why is the President entertaining those bent on perpetuating fraud and misleading our supporters? Why prolong this agony fooling the supporters that we won?
The President should have disallowed his party to appeal the recount (seeking clarity for meaning of ‘more votes cast for President’) and encouraging Lowenfield to fabricate numbers showing APNU-led Coalition has won. The Caricom recount confirmed we lost. This fraud would not be accepted by the international community. Our country would become blacklisted and face sanctions. We will become a pariah state in the mould of apartheid South Africa, racist Rhodesia, and corrupt Zimbabwe. Even Caricom has hinted it would have nothing to do with Guyana and an illegal regime that emerges from fraud. Can you imagine the embarrassment that will come from sanctions from the ABCE countries and the Commonwealth? We will have to rely on Venezuela for survival like under the Burnham dictatorship.
Mr. President, your behaviour and actions are dehumanizing party supporters. You and the party have provided us with so many versions of the elections. Our party claimed victories five times with five different numbers. The versions and narratives keep changing with dizzying frequency that we can’t cope any longer. It is becoming laughable and people are mocking us. We are embarrassed to walk the streets. We put our heads down when walking near supporters of the opposition. At one time we used to walk proudly head high up while they looked down embarrassed at the corruption of their party in government. Today behaviour mode is reversed. We are in a different mode, an embarrassed people, thanks to your silence on this fraud.
How can supporters sit as a family and accept this fraud and how can we watch ourselves in the mirror? What are we as adults telling our children? Is it okay to condone fraud? Are we saying that it is okay to change narrative when cornered with lies exposed?
Rather than be remembered in history as a rogue President in charge of a rogue regime in the mould of Mugabe and Maduro, why don’t you, Mr. President, behave like F. W. DeKlerk (of South Africa) and accept defeat? DeKlerk, a white man, could have rigged elections and stay on as his predecessors did, but he allowed multi-racial democracy, free and fair election to triumph. He accepted the election result and ended one-race de facto dictatorship. He honourably exited the scene in true democratic spirit and was rewarded the Noble Prize given jointly with Mandela. Mr. President, why don’t you also behave honourably? Concede with dignity and you may also be honorably rewarded!
Mr. President, APNU supporters are largely Christian followers. It is contrary to our belief and practice to lie to our supporters. It is destroying our value system. Stop fooling our supporters! Listen to the religious leaders! Let us accept electoral defeat and move on!

Yours truly,
Bro. Joshua Emmanuel

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