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HAMAT BAH ACCUSES IEC OF MASSIVE VOTE TRANFER
By Lamin Sabally



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September 11, 2005
Hamat Bah, one of the top officials of the Opposition Alliance has accused
the nation's electoral body of illegally transferring over two thousands
votes to his constituency.

In a recent interview broadcast on BBC focus on Africa conducted by their
Dakar Correspondent, Gambia's owned Ebrima Sillah, Mr. Bah described the
recent move as illegitimate, saying most of those voters who have their
votes transferred have not met the residency qualifications stipulated by
the Elections degree.

Asked why his Upper Saloum constituency was singled out for the alleged
transfer, Mr. Bah recalled that the President has vowed to unseat him come
the 29 September by elections by all means. "So, this is a by election
between me and the president", he contended adding that the recent move by
the IEC is a justification of DR. Jammeh's pronouncement.

Bah then questioned the credibility of the IEC in the face of such a serious
allegation. He decried the appointment of a former Secretary of State Mboob
to the Commission wondering the impartiality of such a person who he said
was going around campaigning for the President and APRC during his tenure as
a cabinet Minister. In what appeared to be a fierce less warning, Bah
revealed that this time NADD will not sit idly by to have Jammeh to get away
with what he described as" a fraudulent election.

Hamat's interview came at a time when the nation is currently bracing up for
what many political pundits refers to as crucial by-election that will be a
litmus test for the new opposition Alliance born out of the concerted
crusade to end the tyrannical rule of the APRC government under the
stewardship of world's youngest President.



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