APNU+AFC leader being ‘disingenuous’ – says Ramotar
OFFERS for the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) to form a national unity Government were not made as is being claimed, according to its leader Mr. Donald Ramotar.Reports from local media outlets have reported that the new Head of State, Brigadier (rtd) David Granger, made the offer during a telephone conversation last Friday.
Mr. Granger is reported to have expressed his disappointment that Mr. Ramotar has not accepted his offer for close working relations.
“Guyana has turned the corner. It will be better Government…we are not in the business of winner takes all and locking people out. I would like a Government of all the people and that is why I would like to ask former President Ramotar to reconsider his position,” Granger was quoted by an online site as saying.
However, the PPP/C leader, when contacted by the Chronicle, noted that this was not so and contends that Mr. Granger is being ‘disingenuous’ in asserting any other position.
“We had no discussions on forming a national unity Government. I never had any such conversation with Mr. Granger. We did, indeed, speak last Friday, but in that conversation I was speaking to him about the provocation, attacks, insults and triumphalism being directed to PPP supporters,” Mr. Ramotar said.
He maintains his contention that the APNU+AFC Government do not reflect the will of the Guyanese people, taking into consideration that the PPP/C views the electoral processes as “severely” compromised.
The PPP/C leader highlighted that Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) by its constitutional mandate and the electoral observer missions have made pronouncements on the elections without taking into account the real concerns that have been brought to their attention by the Party.
The PPP/C, Mr. Ramotar added, is finalising its move to courts to advance its case.