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Dec 03, 2011 News
“We will do whatever it takes until our objectives are met” – Granger
Stay focused was the warning of Prime Ministerial Candidate for A Partnership for National
Unity (APNU), Rupert Roopnaraine, as he addressed a sizeable gathering of supporters at Square of the Revolution in the city yesterday morning.
The assembly of people stemmed from the belief of party officials that there were unacceptable discrepancies in the count after the General Elections last Monday.
Roopnaraine speculated that the People’s Progressive Party/Civic, whose Presidential Candidate, Donald Ramotar was elected President following the declaration of results on Thursday, has been incorporating tactics that are likely to scare even children. But according to Roopnaraine the actions of the APNU are not intended to bring harm to anyone.
The APNU’s Presidential Candidate, David Granger, said that the party has also been able determine where some 10,000 Statement of Polls have disappeared to.
APNU officials at a media briefing yesterday said that the missing SOPs, which represented some of the South Georgetown votes, appeared not to have been included in the final count undertaken by the Guyana Elections Commission.
“We want a verification of polls from all of Guyana…more than half of the people don’t support the PPP! We have been telling people to come out…and a lot of people did come out and vote…”
Regarding Monday last as a historic day, Granger said that “I feel Monday was a demonstration of your determination after 19 years of poverty and suffering…This is a do or die situation; let us tell Ramotar, PPP and GECOM that we will have a better life…” Granger asserted.
Referring to the party’s reaction as a battle, Granger pointed out that “it is not a racial battle it is one to help people have a good life. It is a battle for better, for a decent life, it is for students, Amerindians, poor people…it is for all Guyanese.”
In light of this, he urged the people to remain mobilized as “we are not going to rest until we get a good life.” He pointed out that at the moment there is too much discrimination and victimization in the country, a state of affairs that must come to an end. He noted that APNU is prepared “to do whatever it takes until our objectives are met.”
According to Granger, APNU, which comprises 10 political parties, has been on the side of the working masses from the inception. He noted that the party will be demanding an inquiry into the terrible 2008 massacres which plagued the country. “We are going to account for every single life; we are going to demand our young people get jobs and the travesty on Monday we are going to get to the bottom of it.”
“Any enemy, it is GECOM not our Indian and Amerindian brothers and sisters! From the start we could not get a meeting with its team and we don’t know what they put in those computers…every SOPs must be recounted and examined and we will look for any scratch out,” said Granger as he amplified his concerns yesterday.
He said, too, that the APNU is geared towards good governance and leadership, adding that the party is committed to “getting it right.”
In the company of the APNU executive officials the gathering made its way down to the GECOM Main Street office which was by then barricaded. The gathering, in protest mode, remained there for a short while before returning to Square of the Revolution.
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