Granger denies that APNU+AFC colluded to rig elections

He stated, “the APNU+AFC Coalition, of which I am the Chairman, never colluded with anyone to interfere with the electoral process. We went into the elections like the PPP and other minor parties, and we expected an outcome in our favour. We campaigned very hard. It is certainly the most impressive and impactful campaign that I have ever been involved in. And we were awaiting the results like anyone else.”

The President made no mention of Mingo’s fraud, and that may be because he believes, as he said, that the statements of poll showed a general election victory for the APNU+AFC Coalition, and that Mingo’s results confirmed this purported victory. While he said that he did not see the statements of poll himself, Granger was asked why the party has not released its statements of poll, and his response was that he was presented with a tabulation of the results from the statements of poll, which placed the Coalition in the lead.

“What I can say is that the spreadsheet that I was presented with, of the SOPs, indicated quite clearly that the numerical advantage was in favour of APNU+AFC. I cannot, I never saw the SOPs myself but I saw the spreadsheet and I was satisfied the spreadsheets were accurate,” the President stated.

He said, “I would like to see that at the end of this process that we embrace reform that would allow Guyanese to vote one day and go back to work on the next day and enjoy the results by seeing parties and the individuals that they voted for receive the results that they deserve without the danger of the anomalies and irregularities we have seen. That is the real danger; people who attempted to manipulate the outcome. It is not the Election Commission; it is the people who went about attempting to engage in multiple voting; people who went out collecting ID cards, people who contributed to the bloated results at polling stations. Those are the people trying to engage in fraud.”

CARICOM RECOUNT REPORT
"Despite our concerns, nothing that we have witnessed warrants a challenge to the inescapable conclusion that the recount results are acceptable and should constitute the basis of the declaration of the results of the March 02, 2020 elections."