Dear editor,

OVER the past few days, I saw and heard a lot about the letter which Opposition Leader, Hon. Joseph Harmon MP, sent to a number of organisations, venting his frustration and complaining about the President, in extent the government do not want to engage him and the opposition PNC (note, I didn’t say APNU or AFC because both are PNC hiding under the PNC umbrella as APNU) in various matters of interest.

I must admit that I didn’t read a lot into the letter because I find that most of the letters that come from the office of the opposition or its MPs have no substance or merit to read. However, I will like to remind the Opposition Leader, Hon. Joseph Harmon MP, that he is the leader of the legal main opposition political party in Guyana and therefore I must congratulate him on his role as the legal Opposition Leader.

A role that Mr. Harmon fully and legally accepted after 2020 Regional and General Elections. Mr. Harmon and those in the opposition I assume are very educated people and they should know that as long as there is a loser there has to be a winner. So, I will like for the opposition party to acknowledge that there was a winner in 2020 regional and general elections.

Mr. Harmon, the winner of that election was announced by GECOM and therefore the winner is a legal one.  And that winner which was legally and democratically- elected by the majority of the people to govern this land is the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP\C).

However, you as the opposition leader has been parading across Guyana and the world as the legal Opposition Leader, which you are proud to be.  But yet you and your opposition members do not want to acknowledge, recognise, and accept President Ali as the legal elected President and the PPP\C as the legally-elected Government.

Hon. Harmon, you and the members of the opposition have failed in acknowledging, recognising, and accepting His Excellency President, Dr. Irfaan Ali and his government as the duly-elected President and government of this land since GECOM has declared him and his party as the legally-elected winner through a democratic process in March 2020 elections.

Because you and the opposition have failed to acknowledge, recognise, and accept HE President Ali and his government as the legal government, it is the most and correct thing to do that the President has been doing and that is to allow you and your members to repent and come to grip with the truth, which is the PPP/C won the March 2020 elections legally.

The President is absolutely correct and right not to meet with you as the legal Opposition Leader.  You as the Opposition Leader need to face the nation and say the truth by publicly accepting HE President Ali and his government as the legally-elected President and government.

I believe and know hundreds of thousands of Guyanese and those abroad would agree with me that the President should not meet with you as the leader of the main opposition party unless you, Mr. Harmon publicly acknowledge, recognise, and accept President Ali as the legally-elected President and the PPP\C as the legally-elected Government.

His Excellency President, Dr. Irfaan Ali is totally and absolutely in order.

Yours sincerely,

Abel Seetaram

Frm. AFC Reg. 5 Councillor