Do APNU+AFC and their surrogates accept Kamala?

Nov 11, 2020 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

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Kaieteur News – The prominent African Guyanese outside of the APNU+AFC who supported the rigging in the March 2020 election in Guyana are eerily silent about the claims by Trump and the Republican Party about rigging. They were not afraid to lend their names in support of electoral fraud. We need to remind Guyanese in and out of the land who these people are so history can judge them.
Perhaps the three most vulgar and ugly embrace came from David Hinds, Lincoln Lewis and Barrington Braithwaite. Hinds virtually incited African Guyanese to revolt. When the drama came to an end at the end of July, Braithwaite wrote a letter in the Chronicle of July 23, questioning the mental health of GECOM chair, Claudette Singh.
Here is what Braithwaite observed about the GECOM chair: “There has been a successful intrusion into her faculties that places the balance of her faculties in a questionable realm.”
There is the Deputy Vice Chancellor of UG, Dr. Melisa Ifill. She wrote during the election rigging: “I believe that the unanimity of views expressed by the international actors is not accidental or primarily due to principles but is due to the intense and sustained lobbying by Mercury (the American company) on behalf of the PPP. Mercury supplied the talking points and likely even crafted the messages put out.”
How does this woman feel about Kamala Harris’ victory? Let’s quote Lewis. He wrote; “The Constitution spoke about a President. And that President has Executive responsibilities and duties if the Elections Commission’s actions are inimical to the interest and intent of the Constitution and the ethos of this country, then he will have to take action. Whatever form it is. We can’t have an election that is marred with discrepancies that we consider as rigged. Mr. Granger will have to take action, if the Elections Commission fails the people of the country.”
Now bear in mind, the following specific words of Lewis: “We can’t have an election that is marred with discrepancies that we consider as rigged.”
How uncanny – Trump, Republican Senators, and Republican politicians are probably in touch with Lewis. The words from Lewis in Guyana and Republican in the US are graphically similar.
We must not forget Rickford Burke in the US. His accusations of PPP rigging was characterized by wicked absurdities. Is he going to accept Kamala’s electoral triumph? He is in a dilemma that is virtually impossible get out of. Burke always claims that he knows well certain members of the Black Caucus in the US Congress. How then Burke is going to continue to claim rigging was done in Guyana and deny the same rigging took place in the US when the claims of APNU+AFC and the American Republicans are identical?
So are Lewis, Braithwaite, Ifill, Hinds, Burke, ACDA, and their partners who shouted about rigging going to congratulate Kamala Harris? Harris is special to Guyana of all places. We have a large East Indian population and Harris’ mother is from India. Harris’ father is from one of the countries that make of the family of CARICOM nations – Jamaica.
L’il Joe wrote the American Joe to extend wishes but the question is; are the other PNC leaders, the mandarins in the AFC and the surrogates of APNU+AFC that shamelessly described the Guyana election as fraudulent going to accept that the American Joe and Kamala have won a free and fair contest?
Things are spiraling out of control in the US. Trump like Granger did before, is not conceding; powerful Republican senators are echoing cries of election tampering; Republican supporters are taking to the streets in large numbers to denounce what they say was an illegal affair. The latest is the Republican Secretary of State for Georgia. He had to be in touch with L’il Joe in Guyana because the words too similar.
He used the word, “discrepancies.” This word was the most popular one coming from the mouths of APNU+AFC leaders during the five-month ordeal.
The curiosity that is taking over all Guyanese is whether the rejection by the loser in the US will take on a five-month disaster as we had here in this country. We need to mention that while the words of the Guyanese accusers are the same as their American counterparts, so are their actions.
Here is an example of how the circus which performed in Guyana for five months has gone to the US. In court papers of the Trump campaign challenging the election, there are some big jokes. In one affidavit, an election official from the Trump campaign wrote that in fact he did see Republic Party officials in the room observing the count. The Guyanese and American jokers are wild.

(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this newspaper.)

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