BLAM! The sound of a gunshot inside Congress Place rings out loud as the candidate and his supporters who are challenging David Granger for the leadership of the party seeks to ascertain why these legitimate members are not being allowed to vote.
You would think that with so much security experts there, the least they could do is secure their delegates at the Congress, especially since the boast of David Granger has been that he can do a better job at securing Guyana than the PPP. If we are to go by the wild, wild west events and their subsequent explanations, even Granger would not vote for himself.
The first person up was former Police Commissioner Winston Felix who, when asked by the media about the shooting, said it sounded more like a balloon popping. If someone who has spent most of his adult life in the Police Force and risen to its top position cannot tell the difference between a gunshot and a balloon popping, what kind of a Home Affairs minister will he be?

So Felix did not hear!

On the other hand, Amna Ally, the PNC/R shadow Minister of Education when asked about the shooting claimed she did not see. This is not the first time her eyesight suddenly went bad as on nomination day, in the lead up to the 2011 general elections, several party supporters had thrown down the Police security barricade at City Hall and flooded into the compound, Ally was with them. Asked if she witnessed the unlawful action, Ally told the media she did not see anything. If she becomes Minister, she might lose sight of the massive strides of the Education sector, where we are producing top students from across Guyana, who also top the Caribbean regularly.

On the other hand, Amna Ally, the PNC/R shadow Minister of Education when asked about the shooting claimed she did not see. This is not the first time her eyesight suddenly went bad as on nomination day, in the lead up to the 2011 general elections, several party supporters had threw down the Police security barricade at City Hall and flooded into the compound, Ally was with them. Asked if she witnessed the unlawful action, Ally told the media she did not see anything. If she becomes Minister, she might lose sight of the massive strides of the Education sector, where we are producing top students from across Guyana, who also top the Caribbean regularly.

So Amna did not see, Felix did not hear.

Then Granger enters the conversation, and claims how he ‘heard and saw’ but his vision and hearing would sometimes work out of sync.

He said that he heard the gunshot and then claimed how he saw the man enough to know that the gunman is not from the PNC/R but then when asked who the individual was, he claimed how his eyesight short-circuited afterwards and he could not identify the man but he knows enough to maintain the man is not from his party.

We then moved on to the PNC/R elections. Having known for the past two years about their Congress, the party’s accreditation committee headed by Volda Lawrence of ‘Guyanese girls gone wild’ fame, in the aftermath admits that the grouping only met officially the day before the elections. Prior to that she claims they were meeting on the telephone and via emails.

In a sense it is testimony to the massive strides under successive PPP/C Governments in the area of telecommunication and the internet, where today this PNC/R official can sit in her cushy office and communicate with members all across Guyana. But on the other hand, this is lazy and unacceptable, bearing in mind that the party has a history of troubles with its delegates’ list at its past congresses.

Why would the accreditation committee only meet as a group the day before voting and not in the lead up to Congress, when they had two years to plan it?

This is very strange behaviour and obviously the mass confusion, with people’s delegate cards being misplaced or mysteriously vanishing tells us a lot about the competence of Lawrence, who is hoping to be the Minister of Human Services and Social Security, where she will be placed in charge of several lists, including that of our citizen’s pension.

Then Granger enters the fore again and claims how he did not see any rigging or attempts to rig the elections in his favour. Asked about how Sharma Solomon delegate card suddenly disappeared from Congress Place the morning of the election, his vision started to short-circuit again.