OLD KAI always believes that you see the true colours of anyone when he is under pressure. It is here he displays the trueness of his character and that of the organisation he represents. 

We get to know if they strong or weak, good or bad, competent or incompetent.
Let’s take for example a recent article appearing in the Guyana Chronicle on July 29, 2014, in which Chairman of the PNCR, Basil Williams, is quoted as saying that the internal elections mechanism in his party should not be compared to GECOM’s. This was in response to allegations of padding and wholesale rigging of their leadership elections at their recently concluded Congress.
Past congresses have been plagued with such allegations; but this time around, the situation appeared to have worsened with reports and images of a gunman inside Congress Place firing a warning shot to intimidate delegates who simply wanted to examine the list after names of persons who had publicly voiced their support for those challenging the incumbency of David Granger, Basil Williams and company began to mysteriously vanish from the list of those eligible to vote.
After the challengers pulled out from the exercise, rather than taking part in a farce where the outcome was already confirmed weeks in advance, Granger immediately denied claims of padding and rigging in a post congress press conference. However, when asked if he would participate in fresh elections under a scrutinized electoral process involving the challengers, Granger outrightly rejected the idea.
However, another most interesting piece of this saga came in the very Chronicle article mentioned above, where Basil Williams, in response to the claims of internal rigging, was adamant that his party’s electoral process should not be compared to GECOM’s. Williams is specifically quoted as saying, “They are actually calling upon a party organisation… it is as though they are talking to GECOM [Guyana Elections Commission] … There must be problems.”
In response to questions raised over the accreditation committee by Carl Greenidge, which we are told only met the day before the Congress commenced, even though they had two years to plan for the event, Williams stated, “Mr. Greenidge is probably holding the Accreditation Committee to a standard that he believes should be on the same footing as GECOM.”
It is good to read that the PNCR has so much confidence in the capacity of GECOM, bearing in mind that it took many years of hard work by consecutive PPP/C Governments to reach this stage, during which there were constant attacks and street protests by the very Opposition party, as recent as the last General elections, where they had even camped outside the home of GECOM’s Chairman Dr. Steve Surujballi.
Is Mr. Williams now publicly admitting that those post election protests by the PNCR against the results of GECOM, many of which turned violent, with looting, beatings and burning, occurred even though the party was well aware that the results were accurate?
Is he now admitting that this party’s leadership deliberately misled its supporters so that they could engage in these violent confrontations, similar to when they blamed the actions of the Congress Place gunman on the PPP, only to recant and defend him, the moment he was apprehended by the Police?
This glaring revelation apart, Williams attempting to hide the incompetence or seeming proclivity of his party’s leadership to employ dubious mechanisms to remain in power by using this GECOM analogy, is evidence of panic after being caught with their hands in the cookie jar ‘once again.’
What is so difficult for a party, which wants Guyanese to take it seriously, in that it could effectively replace the PPP to lead Guyana, to get a small internal elections right?
Mr. Williams should know that GECOM deals with the entire nation, hundreds of thousands of voters and by his admittance they do an effective job. All the PNCR had to focus on was less than a 1000 voters, they had 2 years to plan it, but only met the day before the actual voting, and not surprisingly they could not get it right. Therefore this comparison with GECOM is absolute rubbish; it is a pathetic attempt at an excuse to hide glaring incompetence.