Dear Editor,
We live in an era when politicians treat the truth as disposable. In 2020 the PPP rightfully denounced their opponents the APNU for trying to discard more than one hundred thousand votes; by the next election in 2025, the same PPP politicians attempted the very same thing in broad daylight and call it business as usual when they attempted to disenfranchise Guyanese voters by refusing to allow Mr. Azruddin Mohamed from being elected Opposition Leader.
We live in an era when the Burnham 1980 constitution was defined by Jagan and the PPP as the most evil thing presented to Guyana and Guyanese, a document designed to oppress our people. Yet today, we are still under that same fraudulent constitution, now paraded as the very embodiment of democracy. We also live in an era when President Ali himself said: “If we can’t dance with each other, if we can’t hug each other, if we can’t shake each other’s hands, then how can we uplift each other?” the President said further.
“I have a little son and I do not want (him) to grow up in (these circumstances) – because all of us are family here, we are first and foremost the family of humanity but more importantly we are the family of one Guyana. We are the Guyanese family and I never, ever want us to lead a country in which my little son must grow up or your little children must grow up ashamed and afraid to shake each other’s hands. That is disgusting and disrespectful and must never ever get seed to grow up in this country,” he added.
Yet we now have the spectacle of this same President and his government associates walking out of the British Ambassador’s residence when the presumptive Opposition Leader arrived. At a farewell event for a diplomat, no less. In that moment, the President not only embarrassed our country and Guyanese across the board, he shamelessly embarrassed his hosts. Is this “One Guyana”? Is this what we must now teach our children? The hypocrisy does not end there. The President and the PPP once claimed they were being victimized by the PNC’s political persecution through fraud charges brought by SOCU against many PPP members. Today, this same group of politicians is doing the very same thing to Mr. Azruddin Mohamed because he dared to challenge them and beat them at their own game.
Our politicians have adopted a way of doing business where they say one thing today and do the exact opposite tomorrow. They are teaching our children that it is acceptable to spew falsehoods in broad daylight, and that anything can be done to political opponents in order to retain power. Is this the Guyanese family President Ali was speaking about a few years ago?