People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo has urged the coalition in Guyana to accept the defeat it knows it was dealt, gracefully, so that there can be genuine talks of power-sharing and the country can move forward.
Jagdeo made these pronouncements on Saturday during a virtual press conference.
He noted that A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change’s (APNU/AFC) many unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud are not only slowing down the ongoing recount but also alienating his party from joining with them to talk about power-sharing.
Jagdeo highlighted cases where APNU/AFC raised many unproven objections to the point where they objected to their own votes at Belladrum, West Coast Berbice (WCB), to show the lengths the party is going to discredit the elections they previously blessed as free and fair.
He also recalled the many faux pas committed by APNU/AFC agents, including one agent admitting that they were making objections based on hearsay rather than evidence and instances where the media disproved the claims made by the coalition.
“They talk about joint government. You think anyone would want to sit in the same government with some of these guys who are making such patently false allegations and throwing the country in turmoil. There’s no gracefulness about this group in defeat. No acceptance that they’ve lost the elections,” the opposition leader said.
He added that “they just want to start trouble, to secure a place in a future government. They must be misreading the PPP by now. We can’t be bullied. We can be reasoned into issues but we can’t be bullied into anything. We won’t stand for that. Your history would testify to that.”
This ‘history’ is believed to be a reference to the days President David Granger refers to as the troubles after the 2001 elections.
Political analysts have long opined that these troubles were politically instigated in nature, designed to pressure the then PPP government into power-sharing. The coalition’s own failure to get to the bottom of ‘the troubles’ during their time in office has only raised more questions.
According to Jagdeo: “So if they believe this approach is endearing them to the leadership of the PPP when they talk about joint governance, then they’re very very wrong.”
He should take his own advice.
But u lose the election..they recount and recount so many times..the world lol at guyana.
You mean the other-way round!
Not according to Bruce Golding…. fraud amassed…
Hope you do that you moron
U think it a go so u really think so
This man trying to work some kind of psychology on GECOM chair. But as ALMIGHTY GOD will have it, she will not succumb to any pressure from satanic forces. I decree and declare that good will triumph over evil.
Go in your GRAVE PEACEFULLY JAGDEO YOU ARE HAUNTED
P ming that man will put back Guyana on the world map again to eradicate poverty since 2015 we going down hill