Dear Editor,
The US-indicted Member of Parliament, Azruddin Mohamed, on the day he was sworn into Parliament, made grave accusations of electoral fraud, claiming that his WIN party won the 2025 General Elections.
The presumptive Leader of the Opposition told the press: “We won this elections. The PPP, it’s a rigged government. We won the elections.” He went on to say, “That is why they are so scared. They are so scared of this movement because they know the true numbers.” He added, “We didn’t get 109,000 votes. We won the elections.” The sole basis for such a claim? He said that GECOM’s website was briefly down. Similar claims were repeated by his sister and party spokesperson, Hana Mohamed.
What makes this worse than the Coalition’s 2020 election lies is the availability of SOPs on GECOM’s website following the close of poll, as per recent electoral reforms. By Election Night, persons would’ve already begun crunching numbers as the SOPs began uploading. Mr. Mohamed knows this all too well. One of his own MP’s, Duarte Hetsberger, was an aide to disgraced former Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield. His parliamentary lineup also comprises former Granger Cabinet officials, whose 2020 rigging attempt led to these very reforms.
Further, both Azruddin and his sister Hana uploaded several SOPs to their respective Facebook pages on Election Night. This is compounded by their agents signing off on every SOP, without objection, at the Place of Poll. And while WIN’s requests for recounts in Regions 4 & 5 were rejected due to procedural irregularities, their representatives participated in the APNU initiated recounts and signed off on those Statements of Recount. This took place without objection. Had there been any exception, the public would’ve more than heard.
Why wait two months after the Elections to produce these outlandish claims? Why wasn’t an Election Petition filed within GECOM’s 28-day legal window following the results declaration? Why wait until that period expired to now allege electoral fraud?
Mr. Mohamed and his father are indicted in the U.S. Court system with extradition proceedings currently underway. We now know that the extradition request was signed by Secretary Rubio himself. Against this backdrop, these unhinged falsehoods can only be seen as an attempt to provoke chaos. This was underscored by the call from Azruddin’s sister and fellow WIN candidate, Hadiyyah Mohamed, for Guyana to have a Nepal-style uprising on October 15th – just nine days after the indictment.
VP Jagdeo contends that Azruddin’s election lies are “evidence of lunacy.” I concur: But the lunacy isn’t just in claiming he won; it’s in thinking that he can peddle such untruths without pushback.
Franklin D. Roosevelt put it best: “Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.” It would do Azruddin, his sisters and the rest of WIN better were they to finally embrace this basic reality.