Georgetown : Head of the Presidential Secretariat today says he has correspondences from Mr. Granger in response to those from Office of the President, addressing specifically the issue of the appointment and the confirmation to office of Seelall Persaud. Even further, Dr. Luncheon said that when Seelall Persaud was confirmed as the Acting Commissioner, the records will show that Granger, as he did in the case of Former Commissioner Leroy Brummel, sought to persuade President Ramotar to make a substantive appointment.
Dr. Luncheon said that he has correspondences from Mr. Granger in response to those from Office of the President, addressing specifically the issue of the appointment and the confirmation to office of Seelall Persaud. Even further, Dr. Luncheon said that when Seelall Persaud was confirmed as the Acting Commissioner, the records will show that Granger, as he did in the case of Former Commissioner Leroy Brummel, sought to persuade President Ramotar to make a substantive appointment.
Dr. Luncheon said that it was ironic that when the president later approached Granger and said he was ready to make the substantive appointment, that Granger could not have been found, and he then “unveiled a series of his disquiet, his reluctance” and said, that he could not agree to Seelall’s being appointed substantively as the Commissioner.”
Since Granger’s remarks are “decidedly at odds with reality and ‘at odds’ with what has taken place,” the Cabinet Secretary posited that the only reason that Granger could have make such remarks may be because they have to deal with a judgment that Granger has about what he feels constitutes consultation. “… What he really might have been saying is that I do not like the result of the consultation,” Dr. Luncheon pointed out.
The Cabinet Secretary noted though that the president has been chasing behind David Granger, “morning, noon and night,” on the issue, he is no easy cat to get in touch with … I can tell you that, and had it not been for intermediates, he would have been the ‘unfindable.”
Dr. Luncheon explained that the Office of the President and Granger though have indeed worked out a modus; an individual that the Office of the President has resorted to, so as to gain access to the Leader of the Opposition, not only for the purpose of consultation on the appointment and confirmation of Seelall, but others as well.
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