This is truely unbelievable. The APRC supporters now decide who should pursue 
politics and who should not? And that people should not aspire for the 
presidency because Jammeh is "doing a good Job"?
This is ample evidence that these people have no idea of how a democracy 
operates, but then, they are not conducting a democratic government, so I guess we 
should not be surprised at all. 
Jabou 
FJC ‘exposes’ M Sumareh
By Lamin Dibba
Dec 18, 2003, 10:49

Fatoumata Jahumpa-Ceesay APRC Nominated National Assembly Member, Fatoumata 
Jahumpa-Ceesay, has said Gambians should not take Muhammed Sumareh seriously. 
The furniture dealer has recently expressed his interest in contesting the 
presidency. 

She said Mr Sumareh was asked by the authorities to vacate his centre at 
Sting Corner and he felt confused and hurt and that was why he rushed to the 
newspapers and announced that he was going to run for president “so that when 
Government touches him, he can say it was because he wanted to contest the election 
and that is why the government is fighting him,” FJC claimed.

The former public relations director at the Office of the President 
suggested, “If he thinks he has money and didn’t know how to spend it, I will urge him 
to give his money to charitable organisations.” 
Reacting to M Sumareh’s claim that she “jumps from one party to the other,” 
FJC said, “I operate on principles and of course in the interest of the 
nation. M Sumareh knows nothing about me and he got it all wrong to say I jump from 
one party to another. That is not correct. I was the PPP national women’s 
secretary general when it was banned by the AFPRC. I was invited by President 
Jammeh to join the APRC when I was on the verge of reforming my father’s political 
party, register it and contest for presidency. I agreed to join the APRC 
putting into consideration all the development projects they did within two years 
when the international community think they will fail and also on the advice 
of my well-wishers. I became an APRC sympathiser. I am not selfish like M 
Sumareh to [want to] create an opposition party when the government of the day is 
delivering to expectations. It is under this regime that M Sumareh made his 
wealth and this government made him what he is today to the extent of going 
beyond bounds. He is not and can never be President Jammeh’s equal,” FJC posited. 

She said M Sumareh “can never win an election” in The Gambia and accused him 
of “looking for cheap popularity, giving money to reporters to put him on 
newspaper headlines”. 
FJC said “the best thing for M Sumareh to do is to concentrate on his 
business and forget about politics. M Sumareh, from the look of things, has already 
lost the 2006 election. I wonder if he can secure even 11 votes countrywide.”

She said if M Sumareh thinks his relative success in his business can earn 
him the presidency, “then he is living in a fool’s paradise. But the proof of 
the pudding is in the eating. I close my chapter, I rest my case.” 

    
    

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