The original statement of polls is a moot matter

Jun 25, 2025 Letters

Dear Editor,

Kaieteur News – I found the Chronicle newspaper of June 23, 2025 of interest, if only for its unusual attention to things PNC/APNU. Three of its four front page headlines were about things PNC. This is unusual, but not ironic, because none of them headlined positive stories about the PNC; thus, the reportage, since the Chronicle never carries anything positive or even neutral about the PNC or bodies perceived to be related to the PNC or not known to support the PPP.

A cursory look at the articles provided no surprises. In fact, the articles were either fallacious or implied negative cues about the PNC. Case in point: One article described Natasha Singh Lewis as “the third senior opposition member … to part ways with the party”. Part ways she has, but never has she been other than a parliamentarian, a backbencher, if I am not mistaken, but now for propagandistic purposes described as a “senior opposition member”.

Turning to the report on Sandy, who contested for and assumed executive office in the party after the 2021 internal elections (post the 2020 general and regional elections), the article focused on his now belated public contention that the PNC lost the 2020 elections based on his personal knowledge of the SoPs for the East Coast, copies of which he has retained. All that occurred during the recount of the 2020 ballots resulted in GECOM declaring the PPP/C as the winners of the 2020 elections based on the recount SoPs rather than the original SoPs, which, for all intents and purposes, became irrelevant once the recount was ordered and executed. Sandy’s reference and the reference of all others to the original statements of poll are, therefore, a ruse rather than relevant. What all of those contenders, and Chronicle in particular, seek to obfuscate is the fact that Mingo`s declarations were set aside and that the recount uncovered that ballots amounting to approximately fourteen thousand (14,000) could not be validated, although GECOM included them in the count for the purpose of declaring a result, and deemed the allegation/problem to be determinable by the court.

Even worse, the recount uncovered the allegation of multiple/substitute voting, with thousands being reported to GECOM, of which 383 of 510 (75.098%) were verified by the Chief Immigration Officer as absentee voters, and the remaining thousands confiscated by the Attorney-General and not subjected to a public report on the veracity of the allegation. Yet, the state media uses Sandy`s belated and non-consequential confession, insofar as the election results are concerned, to perpetuate its biased anti-PNC reporting. The original statement of polls is a moot matter, while the allegations of voter impersonation/ the casting of votes for absentee voters/fraudulent votes have been muted by GECOM and the Attorney-General.

Yours truly,

Vincent Alexander

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