The most recent point at which Mr Granger could have done the right thing and spared the country from further agony was the presentation of the report of the three-person CARICOM observer team which bravely and sedulously undertook the scutinising of the recount and tabulation of votes over five weeks in oppressive conditions.

It was Mr Granger who had agreed with Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo that there be a recount of votes during a mediatory meeting with the Chair of CARICOM, Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley and other regional heads of government who had journeyed to Guyana when the elections crisis brewed.

Yet, after the observers issued their magisterial report on June 15 declaring that the recount provided a valid basis for the declaration of the result there was complete silence from Mr Granger.

The shaky and unpersuasive judgments by the majority of the panel provided oxygen for the now infamous submission by the Chief Election Officer, Mr Keith Lowenfield who took it upon himself to cast aside more than 115,000 votes from the March 2nd general elections while concocting hocus-pocus figures that purported to show a victory for the incumbent – the latest of a series of attempts to rig the March 2nd general elections.

To avoid further disobedience and disorder in the final steps of the elections process, GECOM must immediately remove Mr Lowenfield from his post and depute someone in his stead to submit the recount figures which show a loss for the incumbent.