By: Marvin Cato | HGP Nightly News |
Guyana’s Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall, has expressed shock and dismay at recent remarks made by Azruddin Mohamed, leader of the We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) party, who claimed that his party had won the 2025 General and Regional Elections.
In a fiery response, Nandlall described the statement as “bizarre and delusional”, adding that such comments from the head of an opposition political party were both reckless and deeply troubling.
“This gentleman said, with a sober face, that the PPP rigged the election and that he won the 2025 elections,” Nandlall said. “When I saw that, I felt sad — because this is the leader of the largest opposition party in the National Assembly.”
During a live broadcast, Mohamed had declared:
“We won this election, and that is why they are scared — because they know the numbers. We didn’t get 109,000 votes. We won the elections, and this is why they are after me, because they know they manipulated everything.”
The Attorney General, visibly frustrated, noted that the official results published by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) clearly showed the PPP/Civic winning 242,497 votes. In comparison, WIN secured 109,075 votes in its first electoral appearance.
“When such a bizarre statement can emanate from a highly placed politician who appears to be sincerely persuaded that it is reality, we have to be concerned as a nation,” Nandlall asserted.
He added that if this is the level of discourse expected in the 13th Parliament, Guyanese should brace for a “troubling decline in the quality of national representation.”
“It gives you an insight into the mentality of the leader of the opposition-to-be,” Nandlall remarked. “It’s an indictment on the people of Guyana and an indictment on our country.”
The Attorney General also reminded that Mohamed is currently before the courts, fighting extradition to the United States on alleged financial crimes, and cautioned that elected members of the National Assembly must exercise responsibility and restraint in their public statements.
“When one knows the truth — having seen the gazetted results and the statements of poll — yet chooses to mislead people with delusional rhetoric, it becomes the utterance of someone who is either dangerously dishonest or psychologically troubled,” Nandlall concluded.
