Thread:Project:Support desk/Wikisysop cannot grant rights to users (to make them bureaucrat or administrator, both of which groups Wikisysop is in)

Using MediaWiki 1.19.1.

Logged in as Wikisysop.

Visit Special:UserRights as indicated in MediaWiki O'Reilly book.

See this error:

Permissions errors You do not have permission to do that, for the following reason: Your account does not have permission to add or remove user rights.

Okay, so my question is, what is the issue? Why can't I give rights to arbitrary user's as the Wikisysop and what do I have to do to "make it so".