This morning, I led a delegation from the PPP/C List of Candidates and met with GECOM, including the Chairman, the Chief Elections Officer, and five of the six Commissioners. At that meeting, I detailed to GECOM that our party has identified serious differences in numbers between our Statement of Polls and the data which GECOM is using in tabulating the result of the 2015 General and Regional Elections. Significantly, these differences disclose a consistent pattern of a subtraction of votes from the PPP/C and additions to that very number to the APNU/AFC. Of even greater importance, this information was corroborated by a verification exercise conducted by the Returning Officer for Region 4 at which both Political Parties were present.

I submitted a document which details an examination of only twenty-two (22) of our Statement of Polls randomly selected from Region 4 which show a substantial difference between our Statement of Polls and the information in the possession of GECOM in relation to the said same Ballot Boxes. I attached to that document those Statement of Polls for GECOM’s examination.

I then requested of GECOM the following:
1. A recount of the Ballot Boxes for which those Statement of Polls relate;
2. That the recount be done in the presence of all Political Parties and the Observer Teams;
3. That the process of tabulation and disclosure by the Chief Elections Officer of Elections Result be put on hold until the recount is completed.The Chairman of GECOM undertook to grant these requests.

I am now aware that GECOM has met with a delegation from the APNU/AFC who disputed our contentions. I believe that this now makes an even more compelling case for our requests mentioned above be granted.