For frankly speaking, that’s what the leadership of my old party, the People’s National Congress (PNC) – now masquerading as some “APNU” – has been doing to its loyal but susceptible tribal political supporters.

What has concerned me – hence this missive – is the levels to which PNC leaders are so contemptuous of their followers.

Masterfully, they have elevated discrepancies found in every elections regarding invalid, rejected or spoilt votes, to gargantuan levels claiming that an entire elections – guaranteed by keen expert invited observers at an unnecessary manufactured recount – that that well-run March 02 Poll should be ignored, cast aside.

Well-orchestrated social media and television “briefings” accompanied the daily recount exercise to initiate then re-inforce alternative “evidence” and facts – the same numbers they wanted to swear in their His Excellency on, swiftly became tainted as “irregularities”, “anomalies”, “invalid votes”.

The unfortunate consequence is that the leadership’s relentless “invalid, non-credible” assaults have obviously impressed the minds of the innocent but gullible followers.