Monday, June 8, 2026
Monday, June 8, 2026
Armed with votes tallied, fmr. PNC operations manager admits APNU+AFC lost 2020 elections
Though the APNU+AFC coalition that was in government from 2015 to 2020 maintains it won the 2020 elections, a former People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Campaign Manager has admitted that the coalition did not win.
“I never addressed this question in the open but I’ll categorically state that in 2020, the APNU + AFC lost the elections.
“I was the operations manager for the East Coast campaign. I was responsible for collecting all the [Statements of Poll] and I did take it upon myself to record the scores of every SOP received. I took pictures, I kept them, I still have them,” Samuel Sandy, formerly of the PNCR, said on the Starting Point podcast.
Sandy, who has been a longstanding member of the PNCR and the Regional Vice Chairman for Region Four, recently endorsed President Dr Irfaan Ali and the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) ahead of the 2025 General and Regional Elections.
In his first public appearance since endorsing the PPP, Sandy took aim at the PNC-led APNU+AFC coalition, admitting that the coalition did not win the elections and has been lying to Guyanese since 2020.
The politician emphasised that he possesses tallies of votes cast and copped by the coalition and those tallies differ significantly from the figures presented by GECOM’s Clairmont Mingo.
Former Chief Election Officer, Keith Lowenfield, his deputy, Roxanne Myers and the District Four Returning Officer, Clairmont Mingo are before the Courts facing electoral fraud charges.
It has been widely acknowledged that the 2020 General and Regional elections were derailed by forces from the coalition and the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). It was only five months after the March 2, 2020 polls that Irfaan Ali and the PPP took office.
Sandy said he feared sharing this information publicly before- though it was shared internally- but has now made peace with the situation. He said his intention is to be a person of integrity.
Moreover Sandy said many in the party are aware that the coalition lost the elections but he opined that former President David Granger, who was the APNU+AFC presidential candidate, was not among those aware that elections were being derailed in favour of the coalition.
