Another.. indication of Aprc victory....
On May 16, 2011 10:56 AM, "Pasamba Jow" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Monday, May 16, 2011
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> The leader of the opposition-National Reconciliation Party (NRP) has
warned that nobody will rig elections and get away with it anymore in
Gambia.
> “Elections must be free and fair; that is very clear, absolutely clear,”
the outspoken opposition politician, Hamat Bah told The Daily News in an
exclusive interview.
> He added: “Oh yeah, we wait for it [election]; is coming, is coming, is
coming. Would you have ever thought that Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast would
be defeated by opposition leader Alassane Ouatarra who was out of the
country all his life?”
> Gambia is gearing up for presidential elections due November 24, 2011. It
will be the fourth presidential election under the second republic since the
resumption of multi-party politics in 1996 following the 1994 military coup
which ended former President Dawda Jawara’s thirty-year rule.
> And President Yahya Jammeh who seized power from Jawara is seeking a
fourth term. The general perception is that he will win.
> However, the NRP leader holds a different view. “Let’s wait for the
results, you will be surprised, absolutely surprise. Gambians are ready for
change and there will be change. After November 24, Gambia will never be the
same; believe me it will never be the same Gambia.”
> Opposition-NRP was the third largest party at the time of coalescing with
the main opposition UDP in the previous presidential elections in 2006. And
yet, they suffered a shocking defeat to the ruling APRC.
> However, Hamat said, come November 2011, NRP will not join force with any
political party. Yet he appeared extraordinarily optimistic of unseating
president Jammeh.
> “Let me tell you that some of these traditional rulers will not even vote
for Jammeh, I swear to the Holy Quran,” he said of the kinship campaign
being mounted by traditional leaders.
> “They just want serve their private interests. Simple! You think the
President doesn’t know some of the chiefs don’t support him, he knows that.”

> The NRP leader is, however, aware of the hurdles he has to cross inorder
to oust Jammeh.
> “Let government open the media for people to speak, let it allow people to
talk,” he said. “GRTS should be given the opportunity to engage all
politicians, civil society organizations, professional groups to discuss and
debate on the future of this country. He added: “Let them accept that the
opposition is no enemy. We are part and parcel of the country and we have a
right to do a job that we have been assigned by our constitution.
> “What worries me is the fact that institutions responsible for elections
must be independent. They must be able to dispense their responsibility
independently.”
> Mr Bah urged Gambian youths to register and vote come next election.
> Author: Saikou Ceesay/ Saikou Jammeh
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> "True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of
justice." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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