Justice Navindra Singh has dismissed the court case brought against the Chief Election Officer of the Guyana Elections Commission, Keith Lowenfield and the Returning Officer, Bloomfield /Whim, Orlando Persaud.
In a Fixed Date Application, Mr. Shafraz Beekham, a Candidate for the Peoples Progressive Party / Civic (PPP/C) claimed that he and 49 others were misled by Alliance for Change (AFC) representatives into signing as nominators on the AFC’s Lists of Candidates.
In a Court hearing on 11th October, 2018, Justice Navindra Singh had ordered a police investigation to determine whether the claims were valid. The investigative report was presented by the Judge to the Court on 23rd October, 2018 and after careful review, he indicated that there was no evidence of fraud, trickery or threat.
Against this backdrop, Justice Singh dismissed the matter noting that there was no basis to ask the Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield to ‘strike out’ the names of the nominators from the AFC’s Lists of Candidates.