Dear Editor,
IN April 2023, I wrote as follows, “The Coalition, which is primarily made up of the PNC, would die a natural death, since it can no longer mask its intent to destroy this country in its bid to wrest power from the PPP.” I further wrote that, “They cannot continue to shout marginalisation and discrimination, since their own supporters are seeing the truth. No doubt, the APNU/AFC is the sinister architect of marginalising and impoverishing their own people.”

The old corruption and marginalisation mantra will not work. “Blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear” (Holy Bible). How can the PNC and the AFC continue to lie and deceive their supporters and expect them to remain faithful? The Coalition had begged the Guyanese people to give them a chance and they were given that opportunity to serve them in 2015 and they totally squandered that opportunity. The cronyism, corruption, and mismanagement of the economy reached unprecedented heights and the country was heading for a replica of the Burnham dictatorship.’  (“The PNC has self-destructed”—Guyana Times, April 20th, 2023).

It must be reiterated that from August 2020 to date, the PPP/C government has delivered in excess of what it promised to the Guyanese people. The PPP/C’s socio-economic programmes do not make exceptions for any race, class, or ethnic grouping, and supporters of the PNC and the AFC are not blinded to this fact. President Ali’s One Guyana initiative is not mere vacuous rhetoric, but his government is meaningfully pursuing its major objective of uniting the Guyanese people. The magnitude of this effort is unprecedented and is greatly successful.

Therefore, the shifting of former PNC and AFC supporters to the PPP/C is not accidental, but the consequence of what the PPP/C has delivered to the Guyanese people. These Afro-Guyanese brothers and sisters were insulted with vile insinuations that would make a lady of the night blush. They were accused of being ‘bribed’ by the PPP/C, but the PNC failed to unearth the real ‘bribe master’ who eventually siphoned off thousands of their supporters.

The PPP/C has reached out to the people and the people are reciprocating. I could recall that, at one of the President’s outreaches, an AFC executive member was stunned when he saw the huge number of PNC and AFC supporters who were there, and he told me there and then that the PPP/C would sweep the polls, since it has the Midas Touch. The days of partisan politics are over, either deliver or be kicked out and indeed the PNC stands in total rejection by its supporters.

Today, the PNC’s leader Aubrey Norton is in total denial that he lost the general and regional elections fair and square. He wanted a recount and got it, which caused him to lose a few more votes and having failed, he now wants the elections to be quashed and new elections to be held. Humour aside, he was advised by the GECOM chairperson to petition the court. This is pitiable, especially when the top brass of the PNC such as former Finance Minister for the Coalition, Winston Jordan, are advising him to resign as the leader of the PNC. But I must submit that it was not only Norton who is the problem; the remnants in the PNC need to apologise to this nation for the multitude of grievous wrongs perpetrated on the Guyanese people, and this is not restricted to rigging. How will Norton rationalise the fact that he lost to Azruddin, who will now be the Opposition Leader? The WIN party received 109,066 votes and APNU 77,798, totalling 186,864 votes.  The PPP/C has gained a massive 242,498 votes, which is more than 55,000 votes more than the WIN and APNU combined. This tells a graphic story of what happened to the APNU votes. Norton had felt that WIN would destroy the PPP but as karmic reaction dictates, the APNU was annihilated in a sinister scheme that was supported by the AFC as well. Nigel Hughes openly called for the PPP/C to be reduced to a minority government and it is now confirmed that the AFC has been catapulted into oblivion.

Today, unfortunately, from all appearances and action, the WIN has become the new face of the PNC. It appears to be a complete reincarnation or metamorphosis and this is no surprise. The PNC supporters are now supporting the WIN party, having been given substantial monetary inducements, In addition, the WIN party has absolutely no qualms in publishing fake news to negatively influence its supporters. The true nature of Azruddin is now laid bare and his penchant for lies and deceit is exposed. It would seem that Guyanese will have to endure another era of the PNC disguised as WIN.
In conclusion, it has come to pass that a person can become so determined to destroy another person that they become blind and end up destroying themselves.
Yours sincerely,
Haseef Yusuf